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Re: fussp, was Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP

From Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org>
Newsgroups comp.mail.uucp
Subject Re: fussp, was Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP
Date 2021-01-04 14:03 -0800
Message-ID <160979781021.23695.8284804067842883969@media.vsta.org> (permalink)
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John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:
> That's called zoemail.  It was patented so long ago that the patent expired
> a year ago.  See patent 6,643,686.
> 
> It's also a Well Known Bad Idea since it just replaces the intractable
> spam problem with the equally intractable introduction problem.

This isn't alt.spam.argue.argue.argue, so I'll just say that I've
lived with the technique by overloading the email address with the
token.  And it is much more effective than you might expect.

Andy Valencia
Home page: https://www.vsta.org/andy/
To contact me: https://www.vsta.org/contact/andy.html

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Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-03 17:06 -0800
  Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-03 19:31 -0700
    Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-03 21:51 -0800
      Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-04 12:43 -0700
        Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-04 15:00 -0800
          Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-04 19:06 -0700
            Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-04 19:33 -0800
              Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-04 21:36 -0700
                Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-04 20:48 -0800
                Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-05 20:51 -0700
    Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-04 09:41 -0800
      Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-04 13:00 -0700
        Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-04 14:55 -0800
          Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-04 19:11 -0700
  Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2021-01-04 07:55 -0800
    Re: fussp, was Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-01-04 19:52 +0000
    Re: fussp, was Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2021-01-04 14:03 -0800
      Re: fussp, was Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-01-04 22:53 +0000

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