From: Kevin Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Pointers vs subscripting. Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 19:49:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: <7suepg$bip$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: reality-bytes.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: reality-bytes.demon.co.uk:212.228.30.60 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 938717428 nnrp-04:21697 NO-IDENT reality-bytes.demon.co.uk:212.228.30.60 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT demon DOT net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:33:52 -0500, "Damian Yerrick" wrote: > >Kevin wrote: > >If you're trying to mung your address so that spambots don't get >it, changing the domain to nospam.* doesn't work; your mail will >probably still get through. Try changing demon to all caps and >inserting a cute word (exorcist or something?) between two of >the letters. > >krugman AT DEexorcistMON DOT co DOT uk > >This will confuse spambots more thoroughly. > Hi Damian, My understanding of spammers is that they generate email addresses by reading the headers, and they don't bother downloading the message to get the Email address. I am also led to believe that putting a non valid Email address greatly increases internet traffic as mail sent to that address gets bounced around twice instead of once.. nospam.demon.co.uk is a valid email address from which all email is just junked by the domain holder, though you have to ask his permission before using it. Thanks for the info on pointers, and the MID macro. Kevin.