From jhriv@ucsd.edu Mon Sep 8 10:39:23 2003 From: "John H. Robinson, IV" To: Rastus T Cornpone Cc: kplug-newbie@kernel-panic.org Subject: Re: SCIENTIFIC Marical! BREAST PILLS! luxerhtusgdu References: <4p1$-$8$244$o-4oh-1$sf2--lgd@ajfi30> <200309080951.18624.dktrjkyl@cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200309080951.18624.dktrjkyl@cox.net> X-ddate: Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 32, 3169 YOLD X-Mutt-References: <200309080951.18624.dktrjkyl@cox.net> X-Mutt-Fcc: =Sent Status: RO Content-Length: 1769 Lines: 45 Rastus T Cornpone wrote: > On Sunday 07 September 2003 20:41, Sheryl Johnston wrote: > > Increase Your Breasts!! > > GAIN 3 CUP SIZES IN A MATTER OF WEEKS! > > Remove Your email > > perminantly from our lists! ur s > etc.... > > Oh well. > Goodbye KPLUG.... some parting advice to prevent spam: *) Never give your email address to anyone. They may put it into their address book or publish it on the Internet/Interweb somewhere. *) Never send an email to an individual. This is exactly the same as giving it to them, only easier to publish or add to an address book. *) Never post an email to a publicly archived mailing list. Your email address may be published on the Interweb. URL encoding is insufficient, as it is really easy to URL decode. Similar reasonings apply for (at) and (.) encodings, or NOSPAM salting. *) Never post an email to a non-publicly archived mailing list. Your email may be published on the Interweb by another subscriber. *) Never post a news message to USENET. Think about the above two, and multiply by very large factors. *) Never subscribe to an unmoderated mailing list. If the list has any in-bound spam filtering, it may not catch all of them. If the list requires that the From:/envelope address be on the subscriber list, the spammer could simply forge the envelope/From: address. *) Avoid subscribing to a moderated mailing list. While this is generally a safe thing to do (provided you never post to it), the moderator could make a mistake and allow a spam through. in short: never use that email address. certainly, it makes email rather useless; but, that is the _only_ way to prevent spam. corrections and additions welcome. -john