Re: Munged and bogus addresses

From: ah (ahaye_at_fsmail.net)
Date: 10/14/03 

Date: 14 Oct 2003 00:47:32 -0700

Larry

How can I munge my email address as Google groups ask to register with
a real email address in order to post there?

ah

"Larry Samuels MS-MVP XP \(Shell/User\)" <larry@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<eN8lYd6jDHA.644@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
> Hi Gary,
>
> A munged email address is a real email address with extra characters added
> to make it invalid, but very easy to spot the extras and remove them if you
> need to reply to the person
>
> Example--my real address is larry@mvps.org
> If I munge it as larryNoSpam@mvps.org it will defeat the worm and anyone
> looking at the address will instantly realize they can remove NoSpam to
> reply directly to me.
>
>
> --
> Larry Samuels MS-MVP (Windows-Shell/User)
> Associate Expert
> Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
> http://home.earthlink.net/~larrysamuels/WS2003FAQ.htm
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> "Gary" <notavalidemail@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:u2J%23XH6jDHA.1456@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Whats this mean, to Munge an email address?
> >
> > Also, since apparenty emails are harvested from newsgroups, and since
> > Outlook Express demands I include a return address, I have included a
> bogus
> > return address. What else can I do?
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >

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