[SEL] OFF TOPIC:

[Steve W.]

No need to forge the Email address. I am talking about having items like 
your full name, address, home and cell phone in a message posted online. 
It doesn't take much more info for a person to become an identity theft 
victim.
  Also it is easy to alter an address so that a person replying to you 
directly only needs to change one item in your address. Yes it means 
they have to take that step but it also means that a spammer gets a junk 
address.

Take a look at this reply and you will see that I changed the reply to 
address.

Jerry Evans wrote:
> At 07:00 PM 18/01/2007, you wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:48:56 -0500
>> From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
>> Subject: Re: [SEL] OFF TOPIC:
>> To: The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>>
>>
>> Oh, one other thing NEVER,NEVER, NEVER..... put your entire address
>> phone and contact info in ANY EMAIL.
> 
>         I do not know how you can do this - your eMail programme 
> automatically puts you address in as the sender - if you forge this 
> address how will people reply to you?
> 
>         One thing that would help a bit is if people would clean up all 
> the old headers and addresses when forwarding jokes. I often get 
> forwarded mail with pages of previous addresses on them. Also, when 
> forwarding to a list of recipients, please put their addresses in the 
> BCC. field and then they do not get distributed to all and sundry.
> 
> 
> 
> Keep the revs up (or down)
> Jerry Evans
> Near Johannesburg in Sunny South Africa.
> Tel. (016) 365-5787
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> Cell: 083 293 7191
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-- 
Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York

Pacifism - The theory that if they'd fed
Jeffrey Dahmer enough human flesh,
he'd have become a vegan.