X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,fa3b06854cddd08 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Brock Kevin Nambo" Subject: Re: Monospaced fonts: A quick list, and Text Editors Date: 1998/01/09 Message-ID: <#GLevwPH9GA.180@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 314291713 References: <01bd1c63$ad240180$LocalHost@atkins> <34B54852.766@slip.net> <34B56560.ABD322C@on.spammer> <34B5A974.7DFB@slip.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Randy Gardner wrote in message <34B5A974.7DFB@slip.net>... >Veronica Karlsson wrote: >> 1-3 spams a day?!?! That's what I get now that I HAVE this >> "double-faked" address... I am beginning to suspect that there is >> something weird going on, such as more spam being sent to women than >> to men... Maybe I should call myself something male and see if things >> changed... >:-( Uh-huh.. "Veronicko Karlsson, ASCII artist extraordinaire" doesn't have the same ring to it >No, I think that we just get the same amount of spam. :-) Everybody gets the same amount of spam: TOO MUCH. >Whenever somebody emails you and posts to the newsgroup, your address >is out there for all the spammers to grab. When they search for >addresses, they come up with both of ours every time. >:-[ And it doesn't help that alt.ascii-art is near the top of alphabetical lists, either--some spammers are lazy. [ moment of silence for alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb ] >I've heard that people who post in varrious "low-tech" newsgroups get >much more spam, but seeing that we both only seem to post in >programming groups (At least I've seen you in a lot of them), I don't >think that's a factor here. I post to a group that is about programming but any newbie or spammer would not know just from its name... and I post here.. Most of my spam is sent to my MSN id (sunflash_the_mace) but I never use it anywhere--It's not in any of my mail or news programs--so i don't know where _they_ get it--i'm really freaking out now... I made the mistake of cross-posting a message to a jp.* newsgroup *once*, and now I get spam from *.tw that's in Chinese or japanese or something.. ugh. >>BKNambo.com -- http://come.to/brocks.place | World Domination Through Trivia! oah123 (in chatquiz, 12/27/97): "did you guys know during the SPIN cycle the clothes are like being spun really fast? LOL i just found that out!"