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From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>
To: john hood <cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
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On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, john hood wrote:

> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>  > In order to combat the absolute flood of spam which has been coming
>  > into my mailbox lately, I've gone to more aggressive sendmail filtering
>  > which:
> 
> I'll note that at least one reason for the absolute flood is all the
> mail->news gateways that the lists get piped into.  My ISP is getting
> FreeBSD list messages in at least five separate "local" hierarchies,
> and I'm sure they're missing some.
> 
> That's a lot of @ signs for the spammers to latch onto.

what do people feel about using the common 'masking' of email addresses,
on this list?  I know its generally 'uncool' to do such on mailing lists
(where its almost a given for news now).  What I've considered doing for a
while (since I heard the lists were being pointed to news) was have my
email addr be:

       brandon@roguetrader-NIXTHIS.com

This, and variations on this theme, are what I use when posting to news
(thus all any email-searching-engines get is a bogus hostname).

So I guess the question would be, do people find this rude, if done in
these forums?  Keeping in mind that these forums are being routed to news? 

-Brandon Gillespie