Re: postings here using real name lead to abuse by spammers : slightly ot ?

From: J.Marsch (jeremy_at_ctcdeveloper.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:30:58 -0500

I'm with you, I never publish my real email address on newsgroups. Another
thing that I've found useful: I use two email addresses. The first one is
the one that I give out to friends, legitimate business partners
(customers), etc. I use the second one on any web site that wants an email
registration -- anything from login registrations to purchases, etc. I have
an outlook rule that shoots anything from that second email address into a
junk mail folder. 99% of what goes in there is junk (I do have to sift
through for the occasional purchase receipt, etc). Meanwhile, my "real"
email address is almost spam free because so few people have it.

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mvp@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in
message news:OMgSHcvUEHA.584@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Bill,
>
> Join the club. I've been getting a number of invalid mailbox
> notifications because some guy decided to use my domain name to send out
> spam. I've been considering getting a certificate from Verisign just so
> that I can attach it to all of my correspondence to indicate that the mail
> that comes from me is actually from me.
>
> I used to post my real email address, but I stopped that long ago.
Not
> long enough to make the problem go away (I get about 250 spam mails a
day),
> but it did stem the tide a little bit.
>
> --
> - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
> - mvp@spam.guard.caspershouse.com
>
> "Bill Woodruff" <billw@dotscience.com> wrote in message
> news:uJv8eYvUEHA.3024@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > I have, in the past, felt it a point of honor in posting on the public
MS
> server groups, like this one, to use my real name, and my
> > real e-mail address, but lately e-mail messages by the hundreds are
being
> sent out by spammers with fake headers so they look like
> > they come from my domain name. Sometimes these appear to have actually
> originated in Korea, sometimes in Europe.
> >
> > If you have received one of these, I apologize. If anyone has any ideas
> what you can do to prevent being "joe jobbed," I'd love to
> > hear them.
> >
> > I am under the impression that the typical ways of semi-disguising
signing
> an e-mail involving letter substitution, or spelling out
> > dot, don't work these days.
> >
> > thanks, Bill Woodruff
> > dotScience
> > Chiang Mai, Thailand
> >
> >
>
>