alt.engineering.electrical

Per BobG:
>How does one send email to a person with a handle of
>'blankblankblankblank'? Why dont folks just use thei names? Are they
>all hiding from bill collectors or something?

Dunno about names, but email addresses are a sensitive topic
because of spam.

Some people report almost zero spam in spite of posting their
email address in news groups. Others are deluged with the
stuff.

My vanity domain name gets something like 8,000 spams per day.
Granted they're mostly dictionary attacks where somebody takes a
list of first names and a list of last names and sends an email
to every combination.... but a couple hundred of them every day
are still to addresses that I foolishly used in NG posts.

I guess some ISPs spam filtering is better than others.

The ultimate seems tb Earthlink's challenge/response system.

People Who Know internet-wise despise it; but long term it looks
to me (who knows nothing) like a solution.

Short term I can see that it generates all sort of extraneous
email issuing the challenges - aggravating the existing spam
overload problems for mail servers. But long term, it seems
like if everybody had it spamming would cease tb profitable and
therefore go away.
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PeteCresswell