[Milsurplus] e-mail address harvesters of QTH.net

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I agree with Dave.  I get 20 or 25 spam (Spam and SPAM are registered 
trademarks for ground pork) messages a day to an address that has been continously 
active for over four years.  And I'm not counting threads on lists I'm 
subscribed to that go off on some silly tangent.  One half are get-rich schemes from 
Nigeria or other locations in black Africa.  One fourth are phishing schemes for 
eBay, PayPal or on-line banks.  Those are all recognizable out of hand, and 
can be treated as wolves are.  The remaining one-fourth are from someone 
wanting to sell something that I don't want to buy and get treated like any other 
junk mail, except that I don't have to haul them out front every other week in 
the green recycling bin.

Rant mode on.

Changing email addresses to avoid spam is an excercise in futility.  The only 
people who suffer are you and the people that you want to talk to.  In fact, 
any email that comes in here with a subject of the type "new email address to 
avoid spam" gets treated as spam.  DELETE.  You can't avoid it.  Why make the 
rest of us follow you through endless iterations,

Rant mode off.

In a message dated 4/1/2005 9:16:14 PM Central Standard Time, 
arc5 at ix.netcom.com writes: 
> I've never changed my email address, because so many people know me
> at this one (though I have had others, just kept this one as the
> "main" and most used).  I do get a huge amount of SPAM, but my filters
> are sufficient to catch and discard 95% of it.
> IMHO, keeping one address long-term is worth the tiny
> inconvenience of having to use my "delete" key.
> YMMV, of course.

73
Robert Downs - Houston
<http://www.wa5cab.com> (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
<wa5cab at cs.com> (Primary email)
<wa5cab at houston.rr.com> (Backup email)