PLEASE

Sheldon said:

I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!

....and all it takes is a couple munged emails? It the above address
correct?

nb

Stavo dormendo su un bancale di lambro quando il post di Sheldon mi
desto'

Quoted message said:

I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!

Sheldon

my fav' wannabe-wop 🙂
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

Sheldon said:

DO NOT SEND ME EMAIL WITH A MUNGED ADDRESS... after taking the time to
respond mail was returned, TWICE... both address you supply are munged.
I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!

So are you gonna keep suffering from chronic wasting-of-money disease?
AOL's content is now, for the most part, free to the public. Yay, I love
the internets!!!!11

http://tinyurl.com/8bn64

~john

Son Volt said:

So are you gonna keep suffering from chronic wasting-of-money disease?
AOL's content is now, for the most part, free to the public. Yay, I love
the internets!!!!11

http://tinyurl.com/8bn64

~john

Oh my...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20050623/tc_usatoday/aoltakesboldstepcontentsnowfree;_ylt=AomW_CT6WO9nJ11nRzsKamas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3cjE0b2MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-

Sorry - try again and omit the capital letters.

sf

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Sheldon said:

DO NOT SEND ME EMAIL WITH A MUNGED ADDRESS... after taking the time to
respond mail was returned, TWICE... both address you supply are munged.
I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!

Sheldon

Quoted message said:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[email hidden]>

notbob said:

Sheldon said:

I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!

...and all it takes is a couple munged emails? It the above address
correct?

His address most certainly IS correct. I've added a couple of letters
to my email and incorrectly thought it was a fairly well know one that
anyone in the US would figure out.

Sheldon and I are virtual friends... maybe you can't tell at this
point, but we are. He's being pissy because he's annoyed.

sf said:

notbob said:

Sheldon said:

I will no longer knowingly open any email from you nor will I
knowingly respond to any posts from you... you are dead!

...and all it takes is a couple munged emails? It the above address
correct?

His address most certainly IS correct. I've added a couple of letters
to my email and incorrectly thought it was a fairly well know one that
anyone in the US would figure out.

Sheldon and I are virtual friends... maybe you can't tell at this
point, but we are. He's being pissy because he's annoyed.

I don't parse email addresses attached to personal email, I simply
assume they're correct. I highlight the missive and hit Respond,
whatever email address comes up in the address box is where my reply
will go when I hit Send. People change email addresses all the time
but typically apprise those they correspond with, so unless i was
previously so apprised I'd have no way to know that the address is
changed and/or munged, by one character or many, I simply would not
know. And I never suspect that personal email addresses from someone
I've been corresponding with perhaps only very occasionally but over
many years, would be munged, I simply would not suspect such a thing.
And people send me forgeries all the time, so after two attempts at
sending my reply to the two different but similar email addresses
contained in the headers that is precisely what I figured, a forgery...
someone getting their jollies from tricking me into writing a lenghty
reply for naught... of course now it's deleted, I don't save email.

I recieved another email from the same address this morning but because
of how it was titled I figured another attempt at getting me to waste
my time and effort with a forgery so I deleted it unopened.

And I especially don't trust emails from anyone who won't sign their
name in the body of the mail... what kinda "friend" is that?!?!? Plus
it's kinda difficult to add addresses to my address book with no name
to slot in... for a while I would make up nick names but it got
confusing with so many "D Cups", "Bazooms", etc.

So, "B", send me your REAL/CORRECT email address, unmunged, so that
when I click Reply the correct valid address automatically appears in
the Send to box. And in the Subj. line place REAL/CORRECT email
address... now I just know I'm going to recieve hundreds of emails with
that subject.

Okay, I just received another email titled "update", I will check it
out shortly... so disregard the above instructions.

I still haven't figured out why people munge their address (especially
for personal mail), I don't and receive very few spams, if I receive
six a day it's a lot.

Sheldon

Sheldon said:

I still haven't figured out why people munge their address (especially
for personal mail), I don't and receive very few spams, if I receive
six a day it's a lot.

No one is dumb enough to leave their personal email address out on
Usenet. You on the other hand had nothing to worry about, at least until
just recently as your posts were not being archived... so no spam for
you. Too many people must have complained, and it takes a lot for Google
to just stop archiving someone's posts without voluntarily adding the
x-no-archive tag. Two years worth of posts down the drain.

I used to use a junk yahoo email until I started getting 100's of
junk/spam emails a day. Since then I make them up and if anyone asks for
it, I'll give it to them in private. You speak of how important it is to
never divulge personal information to anyone over the interweb and go
bonkers when someone puts Michael's last name out there for everyone to
see, yet you [censored] about people hiding behind fake names and email
addresses. Something, no, you just don't add up...

~john

Sheldon said:

I still haven't figured out why people munge their address (especially
for personal mail), I don't and receive very few spams, if I receive
six a day it's a lot.

No one is dumb enough to leave their personal email address out on
Usenet. You on the other hand had nothing to worry about, at least until
just recently as your posts were not being archived... so no spam for
you. Too many people must have complained, and it takes a lot for Google
to just stop archiving someone's posts without voluntarily adding the
x-no-archive tag. Two years worth of posts down the drain.

I used to use a junk yahoo email until I started getting 100's of
junk/spam emails a day. Since then I make them up and if anyone asks for
it, I'll give it to them in private. You speak of how important it is to
never divulge personal information to anyone over the interweb and go
bonkers when someone puts Michael's last name out there for everyone to
see, yet you [censored] about people hiding behind fake names and email
addresses. Something, no, you just don't add up...

~john

Son Volt said:

Sheldon said:

I still haven't figured out why people munge their address (especially
for personal mail), I don't and receive very few spams, if I receive
six a day it's a lot.

No one is dumb enough to leave their personal email address out on
Usenet.

LOTS of people do, and I don't consider any of them stupid.

Quoted message said:

You speak of how important it is to
never divulge personal information to anyone over the interweb ...

What's the interweb?

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Sheldon said:

Okay, I just received another email titled "update", I will check it
out shortly... so disregard the above instructions.

Got your return - we're friends again. 🙂

Quoted message said:

I still haven't figured out why people munge their address (especially
for personal mail), I don't and receive very few spams, if I receive
six a day it's a lot.

The email part of my newsreader is NOT integrated with my email client
on purpose and the email reply function in my newsreader IS munged in
my newsreader for anti-spam & phishing purposes. I can understand
why you had a problem, since you're used to corresponding with me via
my other addresses.

Although my other email addresses are alive, gmail is what I use
currently to filter out cr*p. I check it about once a week for "real"
mail, but the people I correspond with regularly have other addresses
that I check daily and I prefer to keep them as spam free as possible.
Even if spam doesn't enter the inbox, I still have to clear out
"suspect mail" (we're not talking about "known" spam). I just checked
one and have a total of 187 (suspect email tab) since 6/7, which is a
dramatic drop in volume from the days when I had to clean it out every
other day or get messages about my mailbox reaching it's 100MB limit.
BTW: 656 "known spam" messages were caught June 12 - 25.... and that's
only ONE account! I have others. <shudder>

I'm not even as concerned about spam as I am about phishing. I
received a phising message pretending to be from gmail only yesterday
- through one of my non-gmail accounts. I have to call and find out
how that thing made it through the Earthlink gauntlet w/o "knocking"
first!

Caution to gmail account holders… DELETE any message (this was sent to
a non-gmail address) sent to you with this subject line: "Your Gmail
account has been inactive for a long time". It's Phishing for
information.

Damsel said:

Son Volt said:

Sheldon wrote:

Quoted message said:

You speak of how important it is to
never divulge personal information to anyone over the interweb ...

What's the interweb?

his attempt at levity.. Internet + World Wide Web

I thought it was cute.

Son Volt said:

yet you [censored] about people hiding behind fake names and email
addresses. Something, no, you just don't add up...

It's not a fake address if you dig a little. He was used to
corresponding with me via another address and wasn't familiar enough
with gmail to notice it was munged. End of story. Fini.

sf said:

Sheldon said:

Okay, I just received another email titled "update", I will check it
out shortly... so disregard the above instructions.

Got your return - we're friends again. 🙂

Yes we are, blood buddies. 🙂

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I still haven't figured out why people munge their address (especially
for personal mail), I don't and receive very few spams, if I receive
six a day it's a lot.

The email part of my newsreader is NOT integrated with my email client
on purpose and the email reply function in my newsreader IS munged in
my newsreader for anti-spam & phishing purposes. I can understand
why you had a problem, since you're used to corresponding with me via
my other addresses.

Although my other email addresses are alive, gmail is what I use
currently to filter out cr*p. I check it about once a week for "real"
mail, but the people I correspond with regularly have other addresses
that I check daily and I prefer to keep them as spam free as possible.
Even if spam doesn't enter the inbox, I still have to clear out
"suspect mail" (we're not talking about "known" spam). I just checked
one and have a total of 187 (suspect email tab) since 6/7, which is a
dramatic drop in volume from the days when I had to clean it out every
other day or get messages about my mailbox reaching it's 100MB limit.
BTW: 656 "known spam" messages were caught June 12 - 25.... and that's
only ONE account! I have others. <shudder>

I'm not even as concerned about spam as I am about phishing. I
received a phising message pretending to be from gmail only yesterday
- through one of my non-gmail accounts. I have to call and find out
how that thing made it through the Earthlink gauntlet w/o "knocking"
first!

Caution to gmail account holders... DELETE any message (this was sent to
a non-gmail address) sent to you with this subject line: "Your Gmail
account has been inactive for a long time". It's Phishing for
information.

That all seems so complicated. I use but one address, and AOL has a
pretty good spam filter. If I receive mail from an address that's not
in my address book it goes into the possible spam folder, I try to
check these for legitimate mail, like those from companys where I
subscribe to their news letters but if someone changes their addie to
something unrecognizable I will more than likely delete it.

Anyway, I don't concern myself with spam or phishers, if it's not
recognizable I will delete it unopened. I really don't get much spam,
I noticed a long time ago if you don't open those they will go away...
and of course if I don't open those I can't click on their embedded
links... even when people I know send attachments, especially
executibles, I don't open the files, I'd rather be safe than regret
missing out on some stupid joke, that very likely I've already seen on
a website. I keep my virus software and firewall up to date and run my
spyware programs everyday... a few dollars spent in protection is worth
thousands, and many, many hours in cures that often never fully
rehabilitate. I know people mean well but opening their forwarded
jokes that have already been re-fowarded to death are one of the best
ways to corrupt PCs.

Sheldon

Sheldon said:

I know people mean well but opening their forwarded
jokes that have already been re-fowarded to death are one of the best
ways to corrupt PCs.

When I get something that's been forwarded a million times, I don't bother
getting to the core of it, either. What's so hard about copying and
pasting it so the next person doesn't have to open 16 attachments to get to
a 3-line joke?

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Damsel spaketh thusly:

Quoted message said:

"Sheldon" <[email hidden]> said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I know people mean well but opening their forwarded
jokes that have already been re-fowarded to death are one of
the best ways to corrupt PCs.

Often it's easier than that! It's a simple highlight and cut,
from the message as it exists in your edit screen.

Quoted message said:

When I get something that's been forwarded a million times, I
don't bother getting to the core of it, either. What's so hard
about copying and pasting it so the next person doesn't have to
open 16 attachments to get to a 3-line joke?

Not to mention that forwarding things like that passes around the
e-mail addresses of "friends & family" to -other- friends who pass
it along to ??? All of a sudden your e-mail address is in the
hands of somebody you wouldn't know from Adam, and maybe a hundred
others like them. That's scary.

--
_________________________________________
If u are gonna say that I said something,
please say what I REALLY said. ($1 Earl)

I-zheet M'drurz said:

Damsel spaketh thusly:

Quoted message said:

When I get something that's been forwarded a million times, I
don't bother getting to the core of it, either. What's so hard
about copying and pasting it so the next person doesn't have to
open 16 attachments to get to a 3-line joke?

Not to mention that forwarding things like that passes around the
e-mail addresses of "friends & family" to -other- friends who pass
it along to ??? All of a sudden your e-mail address is in the
hands of somebody you wouldn't know from Adam, and maybe a hundred
others like them. That's scary.

Yeah, I'm thinking of opening a new account just for my niece, for that
very reason.

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Damsel <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Not to mention that forwarding things like that passes
around the e-mail addresses of "friends & family" to
-other- friends who pass it along to ??? All of a
sudden your e-mail address is in the hands of somebody
you wouldn't know from Adam, and maybe a hundred
others like them. That's scary.

I recieved a joke I'd sent on from an account I had back in 1991 with
enough forwards (thank you to all the AOL forwarders) to essentially
make it [a plain text email] rival a full-fledged PowerPoint
presentation. <G>

Quoted message said:

Yeah, I'm thinking of opening a new account just for my niece,
for that very reason.

What is it with some family members that do this? (One "collects"
addresses to add to his private joke alias.)

The Ranger

The Ranger said:

Damsel <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

I recieved a joke I'd sent on from an account I had back in 1991 with
enough forwards (thank you to all the AOL forwarders) to essentially
make it [a plain text email] rival a full-fledged PowerPoint
presentation. <G>

Quoted message said:

Yeah, I'm thinking of opening a new account just for my niece,
for that very reason.

What is it with some family members that do this? (One "collects"
addresses to add to his private joke alias.)

I hate that! I've had people I've never heard of sending me jokes in my
private accounts. They're usually pretty good about removing my name from
their address book, though.

I wonder if your relative knows how unappreciated that is.

Carol

--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon