At 06:44 PM 1/5/03, Hatton wrote: >LOL Maybe it was my post with the word "Nigeriean" in it...
Well, my spam filter caught it. <g> I forwarded a new variant of that scam to the FTC today. I'm on a campaign. Everything I get that looks like a scam gets sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I figure if they get tired of them, maybe they'll push congress for action. >On the thought of hiding email addresses... one thing that I see done on my >BBS message bases alot and also on some of the Ham Radio lists that I'm on >is to give the full address, but only in a way that human eyes could read >it.. something like... > >hatton at fishertowne dot com Several of the more popular spam spiders have converters that would recognize hatton at fishertowne dot com as a valid email address, and convert to your actual address. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
