Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

[Dale]

Holly Bostick wrote:

>>How can I tell them to stop this?
>>
>>
>
>1) Don't go to the site.
>
>
Well, I did go to the site but it was *after* I got the traffic.  How 
did they find me to begin with?  I assume it was just a random hit.  
Sort of like a shot in the dark.

>
>But you don't have Windows or the Microsoft Messenger Service on a
>Gentoo box; this foolishness is not actively dangerous to you;
>
>
You're right.  I don't have windoze in the house.  It is banned.  You 
can bring a dog but not windoze. 

>Having sent mail with this email address, it is no longer "private" (the
>only way to keep a secret truly secret is to be the only one who knows
>it, after all); anybody who reads your mail now knows your address, and
>you have no way of knowing who is reading your mail-- who is "all the
>members of this list"? How many people is that? Do you know all of our
>email addresses, and have you signed a waiver saying "I want everybody
>on this list <list of each and every one of our email addresses> to know
>my email address"? No? Then you have already made your email address
>"public" by using it to send mail to people that you don't specifically
>know (the public, otherwise known as "us").
>
>

Oh crap.  Well the cats out of the bag now I guess. 

>If you'd like an address to use for the list that would run some
>interference between your personal email address and any possible
>spammers, I (and probably 95% of everybody else on this list) can send
>you a GMail invite which you can use as your "public" email address,
>which would then "catch" such additional unwanted generated mail so it never
>reaches your personal ISP email.
>
>

I have a Yahoo account.  I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail 
though.  I rarely ever check the thing unless I'm waiting on something.  
I forget.  Hmm, I need to check it too.  It's been a while.

>You might also consider re-evaluating your ISP-- I never saw the list
>mail you're referring to, and I also never got the original PayPal crap
>people talked about (though I got the replies, which was funny as I had
>no idea what people were talking about)-- they didn't even get filtered
>to my Trash. I really never got them, and I think that's because they
>were caught by my ISP's spam filter. Does your ISP filter spam?
>
>

My ISP can but since I use Linux and they charge extra, I'll take the 
crap.  It's not like I'm going to get a virus.  ;-)  I don't get a lot.  
I was getting less until they took bounce out of Kmail.  I used to 
bounce them and after a few times they didn't send any more.  It was a 
constant rotation though.  There are so many spammers.

>
>Again, if your ISP does not provide webmail, you can use GMail, Hotmail,
>Yahoo!Mail or whatever web-based mail account to communicate with the
>list, insulating your ISP account from any spam that participating in a
>public list might cause to occur.
>
>HTH,
>Holly
>
>
It has webmail, I check it sometimes from my brothers, especially when 
our phone is out.  It sucks but it keeps me in touch with my ladies.  :-)

Thanks genius, Holly.  :D

Dale
:-)

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