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Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:39:44 PDT7
From:	"Larry Tawa" <laror@dslextreme.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Rejected messages that I never sent

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In <54691.21.14.03.29.09.2003@constellation>, on 09/29/2003
at 07:31 PM, Peter Skye said:

>> I hope that the SCOUG archives would have the email addresses
>> stripped or partially disabled for SPAM considerations; especially
>> after the latest, but not last, flood of SPAM.

>Hi Larry,

>I only speak for myself, but the dozens of articles I wrote for SCOUG in
>years past still generate email to me from readers who find them via
>search engines and I'd hate to miss out on helping these people. Just
>last week I received a request from a "new" reader in Japan for more info
>on writing device drivers based on his reading one of those articles. I
>wrote back and pointed him at additional web pages that he needed but
>couldn't find.

Must be my distant cousin that you are talking about. :)

>So I'd prefer that my own email addresses on the SCOUG web pages remain
>intact. Yes I get spam because of them, but it's more valuable to me
>that the occasional reader question get to my inbox.

You have a point. After all, we hope that more new OS/2, er eComStation,
users come on board.

>For the spam problem, I use an _excellent_ spam filter called Junk Spy
snip

I was using JunkSpy when I was being SPAMed at my @worldnet.att.net
account.

>And you can write your own filters.
snip

Doing so.

>Finally, although I've never used it there is a commercial OS/2 virus
>filter which will catch spam containing viruses. (Apologies, I can't
>remember its name.)

Hit your head a couple times, please. :) Sounds useful.

>So I would hope that SCOUG won't arbitrarily strip all email addresses
>from its online archives. Spam is manageable by filtering, and some spam
>filters can even delete spam on the server (for example SwenDeleter, Junk
>Spy, proxyc) so your account mailbox doesn't overflow and your hard drive
>doesn't become full.

>- Peter

OK, I can live with email addresses in the online archives. I can
compensate; see my reply to Steven. Just as long as all members of this
list are aware of the *potential* for SPAM by participating on these
lists.

Larry
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