TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: virus_info
to: RICK COLLINS
from: CHRIS HOLTEN
date: 1997-08-06 18:15:00
subject: spam/junk mail

 RC> On Aug 04 09:52, 1997, Chris Holten of 1:303/1 wrote:
CH> impossible. I give my fidonet internet E-Mail 
CH> address out now for people 
CH> that I want to send E-mail to me. Much better than 
CH> using my ISP accounts 
CH> anymore as I don't think the spammers software can understand e-mail 
CH> address's as complex as the fidonet internet addressing scheme. 
 RC> I (regularly?) get junk e-mail in my Fido netmail.  
 RC> Which is interesting, because I have never posted my 
 RC> Fido address on the I-net.
I never have. Not to say that won't change as all a junkmailer needs to do is 
converted the fidonet nodelist into internet e-mail address and he could sell 
thme as "verified" e-mail address's as they are verified once a week by the 
NIC.
Well so much for that hope of beating it rick .
--- Maximus/NT 3.01b1
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* Origin: Cowboy Country USA! (1:303/1)

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