Cycling in Ireland

(William Dennehy) said:

Hi, I'll be in Ireland July 12-30 and woudl like to meet up with
other cyclists to go for an onroad ride in the Tralee area mostly.
I'll have to rent a bike etc... Please drop me a line directly at

upkerry11 *&*&%&^$ AT (*&*%&^ yahoo dot com

(remove to the doodles to reply)

You realize, of course, that the From: header in your post contains
your e-mail address in clear text, rendering your somewhat odd attempt
at obscuring in in the body of your post completely useless? If you
want to make your e-mail address more secure, you need to mung it in
your From: header.

I would like to laugh a little and the say that I hate spammer and what we
have to go thru to post stuff on the internet....Sorry William....

I have a "dumb" account for spam.....ie the one that is listed.....I don't
check it much and that might make it hard for people to reply.....You could
setup and email for your trip (Ireland is great to visit by the way, watch
out for the small roads) and use it to post your messages and delete it when
you get back.....that has always worked for me.....

Biff

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Quoted message said:

(William Dennehy) said:

Hi, I'll be in Ireland July 12-30 and woudl like to meet up with
other cyclists to go for an onroad ride in the Tralee area mostly.
I'll have to rent a bike etc... Please drop me a line directly at

upkerry11 *&*&%&^$ AT (*&*%&^ yahoo dot com

(remove to the doodles to reply)

You realize, of course, that the From: header in your post contains
your e-mail address in clear text, rendering your somewhat odd attempt
at obscuring in in the body of your post completely useless? If you
want to make your e-mail address more secure, you need to mung it in
your From: header.

Biff Stephens said:

I would like to laugh a little and the say that I hate spammer and
what we have to go thru to post stuff on the internet....Sorry
William....

"Go through" what stuff? I post to Usenet using my e-mail address
as-is. I post to Web sites using my e-mail address as-is. I've been
doing this for over 10 years.

I have server side spam blocking which is fairly effective (90% or so)
and client side Bayesian filtering. I usually see about three or four
spams a day making it into my e-mail inbox. Once in a while I comb
through the cruft and save anything that's legit, and fix it so that
it is passed through the filters in the future. I spend, oh, about 10
minutes a day tops dealing with spam.

The best way to protect yourself is to make sure that your e-mail
software and newsreaders are not stupid (which pretty much boils down
to "not Microsoft"😉 and don't open e-mail, automatically run
executables, etc. Or use a platform less prone to attack, of which
there are several. Insist that your ISP install server side filtering
and get good client side filtering for yourself. I find that
Emacs/Gnus with spam.el does a good job (and is very flexible, being
configurable to use SpamAssassin, Vipul's Razor, etc), as does Apple's
Mail application with good built-in Bayesian filtering.

I've found the best way to deal with spam is to download nothing but to
inspect it at the IOL mail site and then delete all the rubbish without
downloading it.