Daniel, I thinks he made a mistake...

[dacust]

Hehe. That's what I thought. I wish I had gotten back to see ctibodoe's response before they deleted the thread, but I'm glad they wiped it out. The sysop's here seem to be on the ball. I agree about the policeing. This is the cleanest forum I've been in. Hopefully it'll stay that way. My favorite wood boat forum got so bad I cancelled it, and then had to change my e-mail address because the spammers had gotten ID's and gleaned everyone's address. -dan

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Daniel, I thinks he made a mistake...

Daniel said, regarding spam: "then had to change my e-mail address because the spammers had gotten ID's and gleaned everyone's address." Here's my method of avoiding/minimizing spam. First, I register my own domain name. Something like chuck.com. (I'm keeping my real one secret lest the spammers be watching!) I use an ISP that allows me up to 100 email redirect addresses. So, when I purchase something on the internet or a web site requires me to enter an email address, I simply create a new redirect. For example, I periodically purchase items from Amazon. I created an email redirect called amazon@chuck.com. That way Amazon sends all of it's email to that address. It gets redirected to my real, private pop account provided by my cable company. I also get the side benefit of knowing who Amazon gives my email address to. If I purchase something from other sites I use purchases@chuck.com. I have others like junkmail@chuck.com. If junkmail@chuck.com starts getting flooded with junk mail then I disable it and create junkmail2@chuck.com. It's worked wonderfully so far. I can also redirect web pages using this method. I have a moblog (a place where my cell phone photos are automatically sent when I take a picture on my cell phone) and it has a long unmemorable name at textamerica.com. I have set up a redirect called photos.chuck.com as a redirect to the long textamerica name. Easy to remember and tell others about. My www.chuck.com goes to a free tripod account for my family's web site. I've created a domain name for each of my kids with similar benefits. chuck Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.

[dacust]

Daniel, I thinks he made a mistake...

Very good advice. Before I got my own domain, I used a forwarding service (bigfoot). So far, (about 5 years) I have not gotten any spam forwarded from them. But I only use that address for friends, etc. When the actual address it was being forwarded to got overrun, I'd open something else (yahoo, etc. free e-mail) and re-direct the bigfoot address to it. But now I use a scheme kinda like yours with my own domain, which I finally set up about 6 months ago. The forwarding is not really needed anymore (but I still have it so my friends don't have to change their address books, it's free as well).

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Daniel, I thinks he made a mistake...

First mistake this decade! Thanks for the correction. chuck Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer. "ctibodoe" wrote in message news:6ae90474.5@WebX.WawyahGHajS... > Sorry Chuck, couldn't pass it up. It looks like you missed a detail. But, I don't think that automatically makes you a bad manager or dooms the future of anything. Just a mistake. > > But, yea, get rid of the id and revoke anyones priveledges for using the forum for anything illegal.