Larry,
I've only used this invalid address for about 10 days now.
My virus mail has dropped from 300-400 a day down to 10 or so.
And my regular spam (that slipped through my Brightmail filter) has also
drastically decreased.
All without changing my actual address.
--
Fred
Please reply only to this newsgroup.
I do not reply to personal e-mail.
"Larry Linson" <bouncer@localhost.net> wrote in message
news:YTDgb.53142$ZR1.16740@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...[color=blue]
> "Fredg" wrote
>[color=green]
> > Take a look at this site:
> >
http://www.fingerlakesbmw.org/main/flmung.asp
> >
> > for information about how to munge an email address.
> > Look at the example of my reply address in this post.[/color]
>
> That's good if you disable the old account and get a new e-mail account.
> Unfortunately, the virus/worm picks addresses up out of _saved_ newsgroup
> files on infected machines, so the clear address you already posted is[/color]
still[color=blue]
> going to get a flood of virus/worm email.
>
> I reluctantly disabled the e-mail account that I had used unmunged in
> newsgroups for years... it was a spam magnet but only in manageable[/color]
amounts.[color=blue]
> The virus/worm torrent, however, was not manageable.
>
> And, when I did that, I now post with a completely invalid address, just[/color]
in[color=blue]
> case the harvesters and virus/writers get smarter at unmunging.
>
> Good luck.
>
>[/color]
