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Re: Email/News Gateways.



At 06:26 PM 4/12/96 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>It won't stop address collectors from getting your address,
>however.  Are you certain address collectors aren't subscribing
>to mailing lists? Are you certain no-one is storing and selling
>the addresses of all the people who visit popular web pages?

To my knowledge, I haven't published my name on the web at all.  I've done
bugger all news postings (except for the debian-user publication).  However,
I am a Administrative and Technical contact for a lot of domains - this can
be where I expect to get email from however (I use a different address
there, so at least I know what it's being referred from).

>There's so many ways to find addresses that trying to avoid spam
>by keeping one's mail address secret is not going to work very well.
>At least not if you want to do anything interesting on the net.
>Filtering works better (I haven't seen spam since September),
>but ultimately the problem is going to be solved via legislation.

I can filer spam with Eudora here no problem.  However, it doesn't solve the
problem - while I know it's being filtered and I'll never see it - I still
don't want it.  It's just knowing your email address is being widely
publicised that I don't object to.

Unfortunately the only real way to have no spam at all is to change email
addresses and never send email.  Luckily here is Australia we haven't got
caller ID (yet - though I hear it's being trialed in some country town) and
when it does become standard, we'll have to have a law against 'mailing
lists' like the US has.

Regards,

...Karl

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