Re: Firefox "Account"?

From	Jeff Layman <jmlayman@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.firefox, netscape.public.mozilla.browser
Subject	Re: Firefox "Account"?
Date	2021-04-08 09:47 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<s4mfv7$pik$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 07/04/2021 23:11, Ken Blake wrote:
> On 4/7/2021 2:28 PM, Chris Green wrote:

> 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 still get occasional spam sent to an old email address which has been 
invalid for almost 5 years. I say "invalid" because it exists only as a 
received address on a mailserver which automatically forwards it to my 
current email address. I set it up just before I changed email 
suppliers, expecting the old supplier to inactivate the account within a 
few months. They never did - all they inactivated was my web access to 
the old account, so it will probably be forwarded automatically forever 
more! I don't junk it via a TB filter because I have had the odd person 
I've lost contact with suddenly find the old address and email me.

It's easy enough to see if it has been forwarded as a Ctrl-U and a 
search for the old email address will soon expose it as forwarded.

> If anyone who I respect and trust on usenet asks for my real address, I
> normally provide it.

I've never had to do that, but I'd not give it as plain text if I had to 
- maybe jumbled with instructions how to unjumble it. I could also set 
up a temporary address which could be deleted after a few days.

-- 

Jeff

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