A human being can, easily. But the spammers use computers to harvest email addresses, and (so far) they haven't bothered to program their harvest-bots to try to make sense out of stuff like that.
-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
OT: Beware - a whole lot of viruses going around today
Sep 19, 2003
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There's no "To:" header in a Usenet post. Did you mean the "From:" header? That's not my real email address.
-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
D'oh! Yep, that's what I meant. So you are saying the "harvesters"only pick from the body of the email? I can then set up my From address to some phoney, made up return address?
No, they pick up from both the headers and the body. But you can set your From address to some bogus value anyway. Just make sure that if you use your real address anywhere, you diguise it in some fashion that is decipherable by humans with ease, and by machines with difficulty.
-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
Thanks, Doug!
Just testing to see if my phony email will work in the "from" field.
kenspin at mwt dot net
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