"George Shirley" wrote in message
...
Simply done, put an extra word in your reply to address. In my
case it
would be . when a robot harvests your
address
it gets a "munged" (geek for messed up) address and attempts to
send
spam to that one and it bounces, therefore the bot thinks it's a
bad
address and erases it. Pretty much anything will do.

George


Even better is to mung the address before it gets to the ISP.
(saves them time and bandwidth) ie: Some of
the bots can now remove the obvious 'no spam' from the addresses.

Just think what wonderous things could be if the energy and skill
needed to devise the spam/worms/virus was put to a legitimate use.

Like zxcvbob, I use the German news server and have to use a real
address. I do notice lots of spam. Sometimes, when they don't use
BCC and I bother to look, I can guess which newsgroup they reaped
the addresses from. Since I've had the address for over 10 years
and don't want to change it, I just use the delete key a lot. ;

Right now I'm having challenges with a new modem. I get 19200bps
when I'm not getting 16400bps. This round of spam/virus/worm is
143KB, 155KB, and 156KB. That just takes too long to download. I
wish EarthLink allowed for blocking because of size.

Deb
--
(in Oregon, the pacific northWET) ;


reltuc wrote:
I know this is not preserving related, but how does one go about
putting a
spam block in the address?

MAC, On. Ca.