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Subject: Re: Phony addresses
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:47:42 +0100
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nhoop <nhoop@centurytel.net> wrote in message
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> DANG PEOPLE WHO USE FAKE ADDRESSES!!!!
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> Jeez - I sent a long involved e-mail to one of the more talented
> contrubuters here and it bounced back - address unknown.
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> MUMBLE!
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> 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 grou=
p =

volume to pick an NG for spamming. They can also gather up email addresse=
s of =

those poor numb twits who would actually use a real email address in Usen=
et!!!
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MiKe=AE