From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Sep 22 2005 - 14:16:48 PDT
At 9:18 PM +0100 9/22/05, packhow75 wrote:
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>I put a posting on this forum 5 years ago on behalf of a friend about vehicle spares.. I am still getting people emailing me in reply... not MEMBERS of this forum, but people who trawled up my email address on a search and didnt look to see how old the post was.
Do a search on rmgill@mindspring.com on google. You'll get stuff I've posted going back to 1993 or so. It's kind of a standard problem of posting on the internet.
The archives of the info from the list are pretty nice, but the problem as you see is that people can read those and grab e-mail addresses. More often, the bad problems result from what are known as robots or spiders crawling and harvesting e-mail addresses for spam. Given how I posted on Usenet back in the day, I've receive tons of spam every day. Kind of goes with the territory.
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>Is it possible to delete / remove these old postings ?
Up to the List Admin. We might be able to get them to munge the e-mail addresses on the arcives.
>My alternatives are to change my email address... which I would prefer not to do.
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>Any suggestions ?
1. Get a better spam filter to weed out the typical spam.
2. Post to the list with a different e-mail address if you chose to change it.
The problem with #2 is that even if you change your e-mail address, all it takes is one nasty employee at your ISP to sell the complete list of email accounts to a spammer and your new e-mail addy is out there. I've got one I've not used for a single email and I receive spam on it daily.
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