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From: zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Subject: Re: Munging e-mail addresses (was: Re: I'm having problems. [& 6-line
 PIC])
Date: 1998/08/16
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.----- On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 01:27:21 +1200, Matthew Thomas posted:
|
|Ok Colin, let's do a little comparison. llizard's address, like mine, is
|munged to prevent spammers. Can somebody e-mail us? Yes, if they have an
|IQ of about 95 or above (which rules out idiots as well as spam-bots).
|Now, you don't munge your e-mail address, but it is spam-blocked. Can
|anyone e-mail you? No. Even if they're really clever? No.
|
|> Normally I don't want to email anyone...I say what I have to say in
|> public in the newsgroups and I have no particular wish for people to
|> email me about what I have written publicly. I have now wish to
|> engage in email exchanges which may, or may not, prove acrimonious.
|> If something cannot be said in public then it's probably best left
|> unsaid.
|
|I disagree. For example, Joris e-mailed me the other day to ask my
|permission for him to include some of the a.a-a FAQ on his Web site.
|Would that have been appropriate to post to a.a-a? No, because it was a
|private matter between the two of us, and it would have been quite
|boring to everyone else. So he unmunged my address, and e-mailed me.
|Simple. People who want to communicate with you privately have no such
|option.
|
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I agree fully with you Matthew. Unmunging of addresses is an easy task and
mungung is an effective way of stopping spamming (unless you have used the
raw, unmunged addy in the past). It is very useful sometimes to be able to
contact an ascii artist privatly, for congrats, permissions or even to say
'hi, how are you!' and other general messages just not appropriate to the
entirety of the group.

Although it`s not in my sig any more that my reply addy it ROT13`d, it`s
fairly obvious that it`s not a valid address. It takes someone with a
slightly better IQ to figure that one, but once you read my sig it`s pretty
obvious what my address is, unless you try to email
mart.atkins------@bigfoot.com ... that of course is silly! :o)

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