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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 Jan 2001.
Re: Phony addresses

Re: Phony addresses

nhoop <nho...@centurytel.net> wrote in message
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> 
> DANG PEOPLE WHO USE FAKE ADDRESSES!!!!
> 
> Jeez - I sent a long involved e-mail to one of the more talented
> contrubuters here and it bounced back - address unknown.
> 
> MUMBLE!
> 
> Nat Hooper
> Oxford, Arkansas

You belong to a pretty select group .
Assuming that you are sincere and not LEA on a mission:

Most people are honest, sincere and decent folk .
The few who are not make life difficult for the rest .
Quoted from another newsgroup
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>>To explain how this works, one has to understand
the way spammers choose where to spam. They do not
have a human being reading or monitoring the NG's,
but rely on computers to do this. The computers
play a numbers game, choosing NG's that show heavy
traffic and certain key subject words that the
computer believes are compatible with the model
of what the spammer is looking for. 
This is often referred to as a "spam bot". High
volume is always desirable to them, ergo the
flooding done by regular posters actually attracts
the spammers via their computer bots. I mention this
only to remind everyone that we can easily create
large volumes of spam by carelessness. This NG has
been relatively free of high volume spam, and I
personally would like to see it stay that way. By
keeping flooding by regular posters to a minimum,
we can assure that it will!!!

And let's remember NOT to x-post.

Well, technically, although very annoying, cross-posting does not attract the 
spam bots. The computers look for key words in the subject lines and group 
volume to pick an NG for spamming. They can also gather up email addresses of 
those poor numb twits who would actually use a real email address in Usenet!!!
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MiKe®

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Subject: Re: Phony addresses
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