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James Balsley
 
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how does one change the reply e-mail address?
"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...
It looks like it is fairly broad spread. I have been getting up to
100/hour sense Saturday. I have been forced to activate earthlink's
rather heavy handed spam blocker so anyone contacting me be forwarned
that you will receive a return message asking you to type a code
displayed as a graphic so the robots can't see it. Then you can get
through.

Skip Gundlach wrote:
Howdy...

You'll note that my 'mailto' and reply addresses are a uga address.

That's
a forwarding from my first account, which people going back into the

early
80s have, so I've kept it alive as a destination, and as a means of

knowing
when a usenet communication is coming (via the account to which it's
posted). However...

Any of you desiring to communicate with me off-list should do so at (my
name, all one word) @earthlink.net. That's because...

One or more of the newsgroups in which I participate has one or more who
have been infected with the current MS worm, and it's overloading my

mailbox
with 150k messages at the rate of a couple hundred an hour.

So, I've blocked the engr.uga address, which will bounce all mail coming

to
me through that address...

Yes, I'm protected, and no, it didn't come from me (or it wouldn't be

going
to uga, as all my mail goes through either the mindspring or earthlink
servers). I do daily virus definition and other updates, and dump the
infected file automatically, so it never even gets opened in my local
computer - but it's overwhelmed my ISP server, and I'm perpetually over
quota!

We'll return you to your normal programming shortly :{))

L8R

Skip




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