On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:33:32 -0500 "Bill Cole" <sausers-20150...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
> On 19 Jan 2018, at 20:02 (-0500), jdow wrote: > > After your first time being a victim of cyberstalking you'll soon > > enough wish your "from" line was as generic as mine. People who put > > their full name in the From: line haven't been mugged yet. I spent > > a year learning about this 1985-1986. Wow, that's awful! [snip] > OTOH, if I were a woman or looked less like a biker-bar bouncer or > had a history I'd rather not have widely known, I'd almost surely > evaluate my risk differently. This is a hard problem that no one has > yet solved. One minute of googling "d...@roaringpenguin.com" will produce a lot of information including the fact that I'm a member of a fairly vulnerable group. The info is out there, so at this point I've stopped worrying about it. The good news is that I do not live in the United States, whereas most of the people I provoke online do :), so I have some physical distance to protect me. > > As a byproduct of this habit of mine, when I see a "To: John" or > > other name than mine it's automatically spam, especially when it > > cannot even get the gender right. Yeah, "Dear Dfs," is a dead giveaway for me. Regards, Dianne.