Re: Off Topic: E-Mail Security in this Group
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- Subject: [mg117710] Re: Off Topic: E-Mail Security in this Group
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:11:33 -0500 (EST)
- References: <imsh46$5hs$1@smc.vnet.net>
On 29/03/2011 12:51, JCW wrote: > It appears that one's full e-mail address is exposed to the Internet > whenever one posts to this group because it is a 'Google front end' > for a Usenet group. (Oddly, Google gives me a warning to this effect > when I try to post a REPLY to an existing message, but NOT when I > start a new thread.) There's a nice discussion of this issue at > "Discussion>Google Groups Basics>security when using usenet groups" > that recommends, in particular, using disposable e-mail addresses (not > so easy when you already have a Google account). Yet I see a lot of > people using what are apparently real e-mail addresses (masked by > Google, of course) on this group. > > So my question is this: How have you folks solved this problem (if > indeed there is one) and avoided spammers? -- JCW > I set up Thunderbird so that the my email appears with the word "remove" inserted in the name. A human will hopefully see this and remove it! I don't get too much spam. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk