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Posted by Stan McCann on 02/07/06 03:27
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in
news:43e7e396$0$25071$cb0e7fc6@news.centralva.net:
> Well, what do you suggest? Your email will be out there if you use
> it and if any else uses it! You can do all you want to conceal your
> email, but once someelse sends you something via your email it is on
> more than just your computer, computers that you have *no* control
> over. My spam prevention is I that don't do the poker and porn
> sites, don't use spyware "free" utilities and toolbars and MSIE that
> allows drive-by installs. But I have had websites for years been in
> usenet and forums for longer. That is my real name and personal
> email there that I have had since the mid 90's (the email not the
> name I have had that longer!) once in a while someone will reply to
> me instead of the group, but hey!
>
>
Ditto. stan@nmsua.nmsu.edu is my very oldest email address. It dates
from the early 90's when I first got a server hooked to the Internet.
Before the Internet went commercial. Before what we now know as the
Internet. Try telnetting to a remote Unix system so you can use a news
reader (I can't remember what I used way back then) all in text mode.
There were few graphic modes back then. Some graphical computers were
out like the Amiga, Commodore, Apple and some workstations running Unix
and X-Windows.
Or worse. I know there are still folks around that were into this
stuff a lot longer than me. I never had to experience it but I've
heard the stories of dropping your box of punched cards. Owww.
Internet advertising (UCE, SPAM) was a foregone conclusion the day the
Internet was made available to commercial enterprise. I've been at
computing, networking, server administration, and now into web
development for over 20 years now. Being in the midst of the
technology as it moves so fast is a blast. You take the bad with the
good.
--
Stan McCann, "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/
Webmaster, NMSU at Alamogordo http://alamo.nmsu.edu/
Now blocking Google Grouper posts and replies.
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