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Just A Heads Up
I may be having to change my name or atleast my email server as I am being
bothered by a possible Identity(online thief)...sheeez....Just a heads up....You hear that Yowie/ and Flippy?...I'll try my best to get back to you rapidly If I do have to change emails and providers.... :-) Liz |
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":-)Liz" wrote: I may be having to change my name or atleast my email server as I am being bothered by a possible Identity(online thief)...sheeez....Just a heads up....You hear that Yowie/ and Flippy?...I'll try my best to get back to you rapidly If I do have to change emails and providers.... :-) Liz It happens all the time on my music newsgroups - if in doubt, before replying to a post I check the full headers. (Which, SFAIK, tell you the true source of the post - domain, anyway. You can put whatever you like in the "identity" box of your browser (I'm always forgetting to remove the "no spam" before I send private e-mail, and some of my friends aren't smart enough to remove it from the return address before they reply). However, I don't think you can alter the ISP from which your message actually originates. Maybe "remailers" disguise it, but the very fact a message comes from a remailer makes it suspect, doesn't it? Also, many spammers use other addresses than their own to avoid the inevitable "undeliverables" from clogging their own mailboxes. I'm always getting "returned" mail showing addresses to whom I never sent anything (usually with attached viruses, which Earthlink considerately removes before processing it). |
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":-)Liz" wrote: I may be having to change my name or atleast my email server as I am being bothered by a possible Identity(online thief)...sheeez....Just a heads up....You hear that Yowie/ and Flippy?...I'll try my best to get back to you rapidly If I do have to change emails and providers.... :-) Liz It happens all the time on my music newsgroups - if in doubt, before replying to a post I check the full headers. (Which, SFAIK, tell you the true source of the post - domain, anyway. You can put whatever you like in the "identity" box of your browser (I'm always forgetting to remove the "no spam" before I send private e-mail, and some of my friends aren't smart enough to remove it from the return address before they reply). However, I don't think you can alter the ISP from which your message actually originates. Maybe "remailers" disguise it, but the very fact a message comes from a remailer makes it suspect, doesn't it? Also, many spammers use other addresses than their own to avoid the inevitable "undeliverables" from clogging their own mailboxes. I'm always getting "returned" mail showing addresses to whom I never sent anything (usually with attached viruses, which Earthlink considerately removes before processing it). |
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":-)Liz" wrote: I may be having to change my name or atleast my email server as I am being bothered by a possible Identity(online thief)...sheeez....Just a heads up....You hear that Yowie/ and Flippy?...I'll try my best to get back to you rapidly If I do have to change emails and providers.... :-) Liz It happens all the time on my music newsgroups - if in doubt, before replying to a post I check the full headers. (Which, SFAIK, tell you the true source of the post - domain, anyway. You can put whatever you like in the "identity" box of your browser (I'm always forgetting to remove the "no spam" before I send private e-mail, and some of my friends aren't smart enough to remove it from the return address before they reply). However, I don't think you can alter the ISP from which your message actually originates. Maybe "remailers" disguise it, but the very fact a message comes from a remailer makes it suspect, doesn't it? Also, many spammers use other addresses than their own to avoid the inevitable "undeliverables" from clogging their own mailboxes. I'm always getting "returned" mail showing addresses to whom I never sent anything (usually with attached viruses, which Earthlink considerately removes before processing it). |
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