----- Original Message ----- From: "yogi" <yogi@yellowstone.np> Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.australia+nz To: <genanz@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:50 AM Subject: Re: UNWANTED MAIL > On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:26:18 +1000, "Edna MacPherson SABATO" > <ceilidh@sabatech.net> wrote: > >>Hi, Everyone; >>Is anyone else plagued with enormous numbers of Unwanted Mail??? >>If I use the dreaded S-word, this message will be lost, for sure. >>My Service Provider, mentions numbers into many thousands per day. >>Edna MacPherson Sabato > > I you continue to use your real Email address on the Usenet you are > asking to be spammed, I use a complete fake address, if people want to > communicate with me they can do so vire the group I have posted to. > To avoid a lot of the spam try to disguise your Email a little like > this. I use my real email address on newsgroups and Rootsweb lists, yet receive only one or two s pam messages a day. Not really a problem. Keith Wellington, NZ

Good for you, Keith. I regard the use of fake email addresses as quite inappropriate on a genealogy mailing list, even when it is also gatewayed to a newsgroup. Fake email addresses imply that we are giving in to spammers and pseudonyms (with no name or location) imply that the sender is not really serious or has something to hide. I don't like spam, but it is no big deal to hit the delete key, at least until better ways of preventing spam are found (And I'm sure that will eventually happen). Lindsay Graham Canberra, Australia ListMail wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "yogi" <yogi@yellowstone.np> > Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.australia+nz > To: <genanz@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:50 AM > Subject: Re: UNWANTED MAIL > > > >> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:26:18 +1000, "Edna MacPherson SABATO" >> <ceilidh@sabatech.net> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, Everyone; >>> Is anyone else plagued with enormous numbers of Unwanted Mail??? >>> If I use the dreaded S-word, this message will be lost, for sure. >>> My Service Provider, mentions numbers into many thousands per day. >>> Edna MacPherson Sabato >>> >> I you continue to use your real Email address on the Usenet you are >> asking to be spammed, I use a complete fake address, if people want to >> communicate with me they can do so vire the group I have posted to. >> To avoid a lot of the spam try to disguise your Email a little like >> this. >> > > I use my real email address on newsgroups and Rootsweb lists, yet receive > only one or two s pam messages a day. Not really a problem. > > Keith Wellington, NZ > > >