Re: Firefox "Account"?

From	Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.firefox, netscape.public.mozilla.browser
Subject	Re: Firefox "Account"?
Date	2021-04-08 08:51 -0700
Message-ID	<id8n3uFhjmnU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 4/7/2021 7:44 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 04/07/2021 03:11 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
>> On 4/7/2021 2:28 PM, Chris Green wrote:
>>
>>> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> I chose to use a real address.  Gmail takes care of most of the spam and
>>>> I see no reason why people in the usenet groups I read shouldn't be able
>>>> to email me if they want to.   They would have had to have seen my FB
>>>> search history for that, but there were other old HS people I also
>>>> searched for, as well as former cow-orkers.  Today's offering:  4
>>>> questionable references, 12 people looking at my history and a couple of
>>>> other things.  It's almost worth joining (or maybe taking them up on a
>>>> free offer) just to see WTF they're talking about.  Aside from being
>>>> racist because I'm white, of course...
>>>>
>>> I've used a real E-Mail address on Usenet for many, many years (since
>>> the 1990s if not before).
>>
>> I used to use a real address, years ago. I stopped, not because of spam
>> or junk mail, but because there was an occasional person who always
>> replied to me both by e-mail and on the newsgroup. Since I normally
>> check my e-mail before usenet, I often replied to him, rather than to
>> the group, not realizing that the message was in both places. That was
>> exactly what I didn't want to do.
> 
> I really hated that, and it made me think much less of the poster(s) who
> did that. The misguided person who emailed us and the asshole who posted
> the same thing get very different responses.
> 
> Still, didn't happen very often.


True, it didn't happen very often to me either, but it happened often 
enough that it was an annoyance and I stopped using my real address.


-- 
Ken

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