Gene Kearns writes:

I post with directions to find my true email address, but when I use
my email address in the clear (so to speak) I get tons of SPAM.

It is very desirable to have one email address for life.

Once your address gets publicized, it is immediately propagated to every
spam list, and stays there.

Keeping your address secret doesn't work, and spoils a key benefit of
having email, which is to hear from new people.

Changing your email address frequently (more than once in a lifetime) is
likewise a worse problem. Having to update your correspondents (and having
to read their updates) is a huge waste, and proportional to N**2 of your
circle. It becomes a kind of spam in itself.

You have to think these things through. Think of what happens in the
extreme.

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:13:53 -0500, Richard J Kinch
wrote:

It is very desirable to have one email address for life.

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Good concept but not practical in todays world. Better to have a
"private" EMAIL address known only to friends and business contacts,
and a "public" EMAIL where your address is exposed to the world. If
the public EMAIL gets too overburdened with SPAM, just throw it away
and start over with a new one. In actuality, the free web based EMAIL
services like HOTMAIL and GMAIL are doing a very good job with SPAM
blocking.

Wayne.B writes:

Better to have a
"private" EMAIL address known only to friends and business contacts,
and a "public" EMAIL where your address is exposed to the world.

Why two? You still have to read them both.

And maybe you didn't follow my earlier explanation. Once your "private"
address leaks onto a spam list, it is on all of them, forever.

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:18:30 -0500, Richard J Kinch
wrote:

Why two? You still have to read them both.

And maybe you didn't follow my earlier explanation. Once your "private"
address leaks onto a spam list, it is on all of them, forever.

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My point was that if you avoid posting your private EMAIL, it will
attract less SPAM, hopefully none. If your public EMAIL gets hammered
(and it will), just drop it and get a new one.

Wayne,
If you check your "public" email on a regular basis, why bother with two
emails. I use a Yahoo email, when I need to register for a web site, but
unless I might go months without checking the public email.

The issue of posting your email in NG's is to silly to even discuss. I
don't see anyone posting home addresses and telephone numbers, why an email
address?


"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:18:30 -0500, Richard J Kinch
wrote:

Why two? You still have to read them both.

And maybe you didn't follow my earlier explanation. Once your "private"
address leaks onto a spam list, it is on all of them, forever.

==========================

My point was that if you avoid posting your private EMAIL, it will
attract less SPAM, hopefully none. If your public EMAIL gets hammered
(and it will), just drop it and get a new one.

corrected version:

Wayne,
If you check your "public" email on a regular basis, why bother with two
emails. I use a Yahoo email, when I need to register for a web site, but
I might go months without checking the public email.

The issue of posting your email in NG's is to silly to even discuss. I
don't see anyone posting home addresses and telephone numbers, why an
email address?


"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:18:30 -0500, Richard J Kinch
wrote:

Why two? You still have to read them both.

And maybe you didn't follow my earlier explanation. Once your "private"
address leaks onto a spam list, it is on all of them, forever.

==========================

My point was that if you avoid posting your private EMAIL, it will
attract less SPAM, hopefully none. If your public EMAIL gets hammered
(and it will), just drop it and get a new one.

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:35:36 -0400, "Yes, it's me"
wrote:

I
don't see anyone posting home addresses and telephone numbers, why an email
address?
======================

People occasionally want to exchange information in a non-public forum
- such as addresses, phone numbers and private EMAIL info. I will do
that with people I know to be reasonable and with whom I have a common
interest.

I check my public EMAIL at least once a week, more often if I'm
expecting something. I've been using the same Hotmail address for
over a year and it has remained amazingly SPAM free, perhaps because
people assume it's a munged address, or possibly because of Hotmail's
strong filtering.

Yes, it's me writes:

I don't see anyone posting home addresses and telephone numbers, why an
email address?

I get a lot of replies or inquiries privately from Usenet postings. Some
people will want to communicate, but not publicly.

Wayne.B writes:

My point was that if you avoid posting your private EMAIL, it will
attract less SPAM, hopefully none.

My point was that you *can't* avoid it. Sooner or later it will leak.

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:13:53 -0500, Richard J Kinch
wrote:

Once your address gets publicized, it is immediately propagated to every
spam list, and stays there.

Exactly.

Keeping your address secret doesn't work, and spoils a key benefit of
having email, which is to hear from new people.

To each their own. IF you mean business contacts, that sure as hell
isn't done by email. If you are talking about just random folks
dropping you messages, start a blog.

I keep mine separate and that's just the way it is.

To each their own. :)

Later,

Tom