John Nall wrote:

>Bob Axtell wrote:
>  
>
>>>No offense, John, but PICLIST is archived all over the www, and doing 
>>>      
>>>
>>this will allow every
>>spam robot to get it several times over.  I publish a  protected 
>>address  (cotse.net) and I
>>get over 250 spams a day, every day.
>>  
>>    
>>
>Well, no offense taken, of course.  Perhaps I don't really understand 
>all this stuff (which is quite likely) but every piclist message that I 
>get has the email address of the original sender in it.   This one from 
>you, for example, shows your email address in the FROM part, and 
>PICLIST-BOUNCES as the SENDER.  So how is putting the same email address 
>in the body of the message any different?  (I'm not arguing the issue -- 
>I really don't understand the difference.)
>
>John
>  
>
But MY address is a powerful dummy address, designed to absorb spam and 
viruses.
Yours is a real, bonafide address., and is unlikely to be able to handle 
the onslaught.
To see how mine works, send me an email, anything, on any subject.

These days, people have email addresses for different purposes. 
Everybody needs
public addresses, but nobody needs one that  will expose them to 
inordinate spam
and viruses.

Let me explain it more clearly. Assume you are a celebrity, say Brad 
Pitt. Do you think
you would want to publish your real email address ANYWHERE? "real" messages
from friends would never make it through the spam, fan mail, threats, 
Nigerian money
deals, etc. The same will happen to you, and your "real" address will be 
hammered.

Have a great day!

--Bob
 

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