Actually, Marie's address is quite a sensible way to create an email address. Why? Well it fools spammers that's why. Spammers delight in using software to create email addresses using common names or words and tacking on known ISP's. They will even add numbers to make multiple addresses for common names - John; John1; John2, etc. as an example.
So in Marie's example (and mine incidentally) there is no "word". There are many, many addresses like this on the Internet, so if you delete such messages in the belief that it is nefarious you may miss a vital piece of information. You may even miss this one :-). If you have your name in any form in an address you will be subjected to spam - sooner or later. You could eliminate 90% of spam by adopting Marie's style. Think about it. Lance On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:51:57 -0500, C.G. Ouimet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any email with such a cryptic email address is considered suspicious here > and is filtered out immediately ... > > At 2005-02-27 04:26 PM, you wrote: > >You're probably seeing the messages with a subject line of > >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". That's not an encrypted subject, that's > >somebody's idea of an e-mail address. Just ignore the thread. > > > > > >On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:09:21 -0800, Robert Sjolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm getting a lot of Google email and the subject line is encrypted. If I > > > can't read the subject line it is not going to be opened on this computer. > > > Robert Sjolin > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > > > > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > > > > > To unsubscribe please visit: > > > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > >Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > > >To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > > >To unsubscribe please visit: > >http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > C.G. Ouimet > Kingston, Ontario > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
