Re: Add NOSPAM to your E-Mail Address

Barbara A. Brown (babrown@fast.net)
Mon, 12 May 1997 08:26:17 -0400

Brenda Hare wrote:
>
> Putting "NOSPAM" in your e-mail address, makes the mail undeliverable
> and makes it bounce back to them. Hopefully it will choke them.
>
> PEOPLE, on the other hand, usually know enough to simply type in the
> REAL e-mail address, which just requires removing the NOSPAM part.

Sorry to disappoint, but the spammers have caught up with the nospammers. It is
a very simple programmatic process to eliminate the words "nospam" or "nojunk" or
whatever, in order to arrive at a valid email address.

Putting such devices in your address also makes it difficult for people to respond -
especially if they are using a "reply" function which automatically puts the reply-to
address in new mail.

Far better to report spammers to the proper authorities ....see
http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html

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