TK>On 18 Feb 03 08:58 you wrote something about *FAN MONITORING*...

TK> TK>> my email is:

TK> GM> Be warned that some of the FIDO echoes are uploaded onto the
TK> GM> internet and some sneaky people have automatic scan programs that
TK> GM> pull out anything that looks like an email address, so they can
TK> GM> send off spam.

TK>Not a problem....I use spamfilters and intelligent
"revenge" software.

Pray, tell me just how can your "revenge" software do
anything to the spammers when many - maybe most are now
using fake addresses? About 50% of my bounced spams result
in "invalid addresses".

TK> GM> About three years ago when I started giving my email address as
TK> GM> part of my sig file in the FIDO echoes I started getting spam
TK> GM> emails.

TK>Strange....I can't imagine how such a small group of users like FIDO-netters
TK>could be commercially interesting for ANY company.

Taint the Fido netters, it's the spammer group monitoring
Fido in order to glean valid addresses>
Jay
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