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From: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:23:30 
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [discuss] this

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From: Michael Adams
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Subject: Re: [discuss] this
Sent: Oct 16, 2009 03:23

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:17:31 +0100
Came this utterance formulated by Tony Pursell to my mailbox:

> Hi all
> 
> 'SHANNON WILLIAMS' is not subscribed to the list, so unless you 
> include 'her' personal email adddress, 'she' will not see any
> comments.
> 

As i did. This is common on this list.

> My worry is that it may be a spam attempt to harvest email addresses, 
> or something even worse.
> 

Many frustrated people post to this list. Their frustration coming
across as anger directed at the program, at the developers of the
program or at the email address they may think is going to a help desk.

> I have tried to create an anonymous persona to reply to 'her' but when
> I tested my attempts to do this, they all got caught by Google Mail's 
> spam filters, so the chances are that 'she' would not see them either.
>  

Not necessary, email addresses used on this list can be harvested direct
from the server. Yours is here:
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=65024

This list is often mistakenly stumbled upon by those seeking help, or
wanting to vent frustration, and it is not unusual to receive emails of
this type here. Unless you have a specific reason to suspect email
harvesting as a motive, I respectfully suggest you disregard that as the
motive for the original email.

If you are worried about harvesting, then register two email addresses.
Post on one and only ever read using the other. Most email clients allow
you to set the outgoing address on a per folder basis. This allows you
to drop all emails coming in to the posting address. Many ISP's will let
you do this at the server.

-- 
Michael

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall
be well

 - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416

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