[Boatanchors] New Yahoo group for classic radios

[Jim Hill]

Here's my fix to this problem:
Change to an ISP that allows multiple email addresses.  Use one for 
personal emails, a second for Yahoo and a third for boatanchor 
reflectors.  I use a fourth for reflectors like Glowbugs and Boatanchors 
(old tube radios)  that require more effort to change.  When your spam 
starts to increase  (I consider one a day too much), change the appropriate 
email address.  A simple change is all that is needed.  I added a -2 to 
this address when problems occurred.   I find my personal email address is 
fairly safe, and Yahoo requires a change once or twice a year.  I use 
another email address for businesses, like Newark and McMaster-Carr and 
have never had problems there.  Newsgroups are the worst, expect spam and 
viruses immediately.  Disguise your email address,  I add a leading X to 
one of my normal addresses, and say to remove the X at the bottom of the 
message.

When changing to multiple email addresses, check and see if one of the 
multiple addresses is the primary address that can only be changed with 
difficulty.  Proceed accordingly.

This approach works fine because most people won't change their email 
address and spammers have plenty of victims.
73's Jim  w6ivw


At 03:20 PM 5/29/2004 -0700, you wrote:

>--- Al Parker <anchor at ec.rr.com> wrote:
> >There are at least 2 other BA groups that are not on Yahoo, and have
> > been around a long time  I do not/will not use yahoo groups any more
> > than"necessary" due to yahoo's propendency to spawn spam.
>
>I have never understood this criticism of Yahoo. I belong to several
>Yahooo ham radio groups, and out of about 100 emails per day received,
>about five are unwanted ads.
>How can I be so lucky?
>My wife, who belongs to NO email groups, has email consisting of 50% of
>what she calls "spam." I think it comes from giving out your email to
>everyone you see, not from Yahoo.
>Or maybe I am just lucky!
>73,
>Paul K4PDM
>
>
>
>
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