Re: [Thinkpad] What's the actual full capacity of your battery?

Very cool!
----- Original Message -----
From: "No Spam" <nospamplease@ifrance.com>
To: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] What's the actual full capacity of your battery?

> Hello Bruce!
>
> Bruce Markowitz wrote:
> >
> > How can one post to the list with a "no spam" address.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "No Spam" <nospamplease@ifrance.com>
>
> > Not expecting any reply I guess
>
> 8-)
>
> Not at all. This is a trick I have been using for a few years. At first,
> when I started on the Internet, in the middle of the 90's, my address
> was something like first.lastname@ifrance.com. It took a couple of years
> to get this address flooded by hundreds of daily spams (sex, used cars,
> insurance and all that you sure know about!).
>
> At that early time of spamming ( 96-97 ?), some senders started to put a
> "nospam" in their address, with a "delete nospam when replying" in the
> body of the msg. The wrong side was that it took no time for the
> spamming bots to check if there was a "nospam" on the address and remove
> it if any, so most of the corrected addresses were still reachable...
>
> I finally thought: Why not simply have a pure true nospam mail address
> and I created in 1997 my "nospamplease@ifrance.com" and till now, it has
> worked fairly good as I suppose that the bots delete the 'nospam' part
> of my address, making the remaining address totally unusable!
>
> I still sometimes receives a few spam (may be 10 a month ?) and the only
> spam reaching quite everyday my mailbox is the Microsoft virus "update
> your system" or something like that, which proves, if needed, that
> Microsoft is always doing things like no others! 8-)
>
> Most of the time, people replying to a msg do not even read the mail
> address,..they just hit "reply" and everything goes OK. Sometimes,
> people read the mail address, but it's very rare that they correct the
> nospam by themselve but it can happen.
>
> So, in the many usenet forums I read, there is a a statement in every
> msg I send which read:
>
> (NB: This is a valid Reply-To. Do not remove anything)
>
> As the Thinkpad group is a mailing list, not a newsgroup, I often
> forgot it, so this is why this statement was missing. Sorry about it
> (but as you see, it finally passed through as I received it ...2 times!
>
>
> Happy New Year to all and long life to the list!
>
> Regards,
>
> Bernard
>
> Oooops! I forgot:
>
> (NB: This is a valid Reply-To. Do not remove anything)
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