From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 13:12:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9107D37B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1368043E6E for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jolok@myrealbox.com) Received: from inspectorbox jolok@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [130.94.160.46] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.11 $ on Novell NetWare; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:12:47 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken To: FreeBSD quest Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:12:15 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-Id: Subject: Re: ASSISTANCE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1135 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 8/23/2002 11:44:11 AM, Marty Landman wrote: >Hi, > >Is there any particular reason the FBI doesn't chase these idiots down? I'm >really starting to get peeved by the tons of spam I/all of us get all the >(*#$ time. > >Marty > >At 05:13 PM 8/23/02 +0100, Frank Langa wrote: >>FROM: COL. FRANK LANGA. >>DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. >>Tel No: Your country Intl. access code + 8821652098236 >>email : franklanga@rediffmail.com Question: Can anyone recommend a good method for spam avoidance, or recommend some online docs about the subject? I've noticed some folks adding words or characters to their email addresses, with instructions for how to 'strip down' the address for responding. How does that work, exactly? Thanks, -- Joshua "First things first -- but not necessarily in that order" -- The Doctor, "Doctor Who" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message