mel jacobson on thu 25 may 06
i have changed all the website stuff to the new visi
format. (my new isp)
the old will work for several more months.
i have added a link to the clayart page at the bottom
of this email.
bill jones dropped a line to tell me things are going
very well at acers as to the new computer, new
software and upgrades for listsoft.
i think it will happen.
i have suggested that we go private, with only
clayart members able to post. most listservs in the
world are doing that now to discourage spam.
mel
from: mel/minnetonka.mn.usa
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/ (new website)
http://my.pclink.com/~melpots3 old
Clayart page link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
Jean Cochran on fri 26 may 06
Hi Mel, Thanks Mel for all you do;
I have a question (may sound dumb to more experienced computer literate
folks). If I keep my present e mail address, will it automatically let the
spammers into the new clayart list when it is changed? Am I making any
sense?
Jean Wadsworth Cochran
www.foxhollowpottery.com
www.kycraft.ky.gov/craftcgi-bin/index.cgi?busid=186
Maurice Weitman on tue 30 may 06
At 23:27 -0400 on 5/26/06, Jean Cochran wrote:
>Hi Mel, Thanks Mel for all you do;
>
>I have a question (may sound dumb to more experienced computer literate
>folks). If I keep my present e mail address, will it automatically let the
>spammers into the new clayart list when it is changed? Am I making any
>sense?
Not really, Jean.
Your/our individual email address has nothing to do with letting
spammers into the clayart list. It's more likely the other way
around.
The archives that are already on the web are there for the
foreseeable future. They may indeed outlive us.
And your address, once known to spammers, will be retained by them.
If no changes are made to clayart's distribution or the publication
of its archives, spammers will be able to get any new addresses used
to post to clayart.
But in your case, it's moot, since your address is available to
spammers in open text from your public web page.
Here is a link to a page that contains some information on how to
obscure email addresses on web pages so that spammers can't (easily)
glean/scrape/harvest them from YOUR web pages.
http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml
Regards,
Maurice
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