Wally,
Just how does my including my email address in a usenet post harm you?
If you can explain how this practice of mine manages to affect you
personally in any way, I may stop doing so. Until then, I refuse to
join into this mass paranoia our society is devolving into. They ought
to change the last line of our national anthem to "the land of the
fearful". This issue of fearing to identify yourself and hiding behind
anonymity is just a minor symptom of what I think is a major and largely
unrecognized problem our country has been developing for a number of
decades.

Sorry about jumping up on a soapbox, but you managed to push one of my
hot buttons.

Take care - Dan

WaIIy wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:22:42 GMT, Dan Best wrote:


Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Congradulations Skip. It's been a long hard trail. Now where are those
pictures?
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Skip Gundlach wrote:

It's been a long road...

Tonight, I sent the following email to a photographer who really was also
acting as a mechanic's helper and there, probably, only because he's dating
the owner's daughter, while the owner and his boat-tender/mechanic worked
for 3 weeks to get the boat ready for sale:

From: "Skip Gundl
To: "Michel"
Cc: "rmtg" lfe; "Lydia A. l;
ch; "CHARLES E MOR; "Pete Brown"
ol.
Subject: Tehamana
Date: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:45 PM



FYI to the replies : Please don't post the e-mail addresses in a usenet
group.

--
Dan Best - (707) 431-1662, Healdsburg, CA 95448
B-2/75 1977-1979
Tayana 37 #192, "Tricia Jean"
http://rangerbest.home.comcast.net/TriciaJean.JPG

Dan,

I often reply to questions posted outhere on the usenet. I often
include in those posts (as may be apparent) the mention that posting a
good e-mail @ddress is not a good idea because spambots prowl here.
They will grab that @ddress (that you though was for your use alone) and
soon you will have an inbox full of:
Enlarge your size .. both genders
Cheap Viagra
Better than Viagra
Like Viagra but for women
Lose 50# next month
Get out of debt
Come and sign up for my porno webcam
Get a college diploma without any class
etc.
I never did figure out what many were about, they had pictures of girls,
but they were in chinese or something.

It seems to take a couple of months for them to trap your @ddress and
sell it to every spammer in the universe, but once it starts, no amount
of "click here to stop getting these inportant messages" will do you any
good (in fact I think they sell that list for more money).

Last year I was forced to abandon an @ddress we had used for eight years
because with 60-80 spam messages a day, it was difficult to find any
actual messages that I might want to read. There is only some much the
spam filters can do, and the you I had running on my mail server got so
big that the server could not handle the load.

I wish you the best of luck, but the spambaots will get you if you do
not protect yourself.


Dan Best wrote:

Wally,
Just how does my including my email address in a usenet post harm you?
If you can explain how this practice of mine manages to affect you
personally in any way, I may stop doing so. Until then, I refuse to
join into this mass paranoia our society is devolving into. They ought
to change the last line of our national anthem to "the land of the
fearful". This issue of fearing to identify yourself and hiding behind
anonymity is just a minor symptom of what I think is a major and largely
unrecognized problem our country has been developing for a number of
decades.

Sorry about jumping up on a soapbox, but you managed to push one of my
hot buttons.

Take care - Dan

WaIIy wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:22:42 GMT, Dan Best wrote:


Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Congradulations Skip. It's been a long hard trail. Now where are
those pictures?
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Skip Gundlach wrote:

It's been a long road...

Tonight, I sent the following email to a photographer who really was
also
acting as a mechanic's helper and there, probably, only because he's
dating
the owner's daughter, while the owner and his boat-tender/mechanic
worked
for 3 weeks to get the boat ready for sale:

From: "Skip Gundl
To: "Michel"
Cc: "rmtg" lfe; "Lydia A. l;
ch; "CHARLES E MOR; "Pete Brown"
ol.
Subject: Tehamana
Date: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:45 PM



FYI to the replies : Please don't post the e-mail addresses in a usenet
group.

Dan,

I often reply to questions posted outhere on the usenet. I often
include in those posts (as may be apparent) the mention that posting a
good e-mail @ddress is not a good idea because spambots prowl here.
They will grab that @ddress (that you though was for your use alone) and
soon you will have an inbox full of:
Enlarge your size .. both genders
Cheap Viagra
Better than Viagra
Like Viagra but for women
Lose 50# next month
Get out of debt
Come and sign up for my porno webcam
Get a college diploma without any class
etc.
I never did figure out what many were about, they had pictures of girls,
but they were in chinese or something.

It seems to take a couple of months for them to trap your @ddress and
sell it to every spammer in the universe, but once it starts, no amount
of "click here to stop getting these inportant messages" will do you any
good (in fact I think they sell that list for more money).

Last year I was forced to abandon an @ddress we had used for eight years
because with 60-80 spam messages a day, it was difficult to find any
actual messages that I might want to read. There is only some much the
spam filters can do, and the you I had running on my mail server got so
big that the server could not handle the load.

I wish you the best of luck, but the spambaots will get you if you do
not protect yourself.


Dan Best wrote:

Wally,
Just how does my including my email address in a usenet post harm you?
If you can explain how this practice of mine manages to affect you
personally in any way, I may stop doing so. Until then, I refuse to
join into this mass paranoia our society is devolving into. They ought
to change the last line of our national anthem to "the land of the
fearful". This issue of fearing to identify yourself and hiding behind
anonymity is just a minor symptom of what I think is a major and largely
unrecognized problem our country has been developing for a number of
decades.

Sorry about jumping up on a soapbox, but you managed to push one of my
hot buttons.

Take care - Dan

WaIIy wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:22:42 GMT, Dan Best wrote:


Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Congradulations Skip. It's been a long hard trail. Now where are
those pictures?
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Skip Gundlach wrote:

It's been a long road...

Tonight, I sent the following email to a photographer who really was
also
acting as a mechanic's helper and there, probably, only because he's
dating
the owner's daughter, while the owner and his boat-tender/mechanic
worked
for 3 weeks to get the boat ready for sale:

From: "Skip Gundl
To: "Michel"
Cc: "rmtg" lfe; "Lydia A. l;
ch; "CHARLES E MOR; "Pete Brown"
ol.
Subject: Tehamana
Date: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:45 PM



FYI to the replies : Please don't post the e-mail addresses in a usenet
group.