Subject: Spam Blocker email address headers?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:51:22 -0600

Hi All,
    I have seen other people adjust their email address
in the header so when they post to Usenet they don't get
a deluge of spam and ads.  We have a UW account
using Pine and would like to do this also.  We use M$
Terminal to log on if that helps.  My guess would be to
open up Setup in Pine but if someone could guide me
thru what to copy in on what line of the set up.
   We would like to change our email address to
[email-masked]     that way the spam
will bounce back to the unsolicited advertiser.
    Thank you for any help.  Take care, J Melusky

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:01:16 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997 [email-masked] wrote:

  >    I have seen other people adjust their email address in the header so
  >when they post to Usenet they don't get a deluge of spam and ads. We have
  >a UW account using Pine and would like to do this also. We use M$
  >Terminal to log on if that helps. My guess would be to open up Setup in
  >Pine but if someone could guide me thru what to copy in on what line of
  >the set up.
  >[email-masked] that way the spam will bounce back to the
  >unsolicited advertiser.

What for? There are less annoying means to acheave that, without making
people c&p your address into the header each time they want to write to you.
Check this document for further information:
	http://digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html
Filtering those addresses is certainly more effective in the long run ;-)

Cheers,
Robin

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