Actually, I believe I requested this six months to a year ago... I forget the actual discourse, but I agree with you. I'm tired of excitedly looking in my AR folder only to find 5 emails advertising me to pick up rich women in Nigeria.

Mark

From Robert <robert--atari.org> on 25 Sep 2003:

> I believe the reason is that if you look at the homepage for this
> mailing
> list (http://www.alternaterealityarchive.com/) all e-mail
> addresses of
> everyone is visible in plain (unscrambled) format, which is very easy
> for
> e-mail bots (which spammers use) to browse and find.
>
> If you type your e-mail address into Google, I suspect that it will gain
> a
> few hits, and there is your answer.
>
> My suggestion would be to mail Alexander J Rementer
> (Listmaster--alternaterealityarchive.com) and ask him to scramble/remove the e-mails
> from
> the site. If he gets a few polite requests, I'm sure he will comply.
>
> /Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kyle West" <barrick75--hotmail.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:46 AM
> Subject: Re: FW: Amazing secret to picking up women tw
>
>
> > nope.. I didn't get it. my guess is you probably got hit by one of
> the
> > spammers that tries all possible e-mail addresses in a domain. It's
> not
> > uncommon these days. As a test once, I got an e-mail address, gave
> the
> > address to *absolutely noone* and eventually the spam started pouring
> in.
> >
> >
> > >From: <AR--ZoomEmail.com>
> > >Reply-To:
> AlternateReality-From-barrick75-hotmail.com--alternaterealityarchive.com
> > >To: "Alternate Reality" <<Address Masked>>
> > >Subject: FW: Amazing secret to picking up women tw
> > >Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:38:09 -0400
> > >
> > >What is this crap? Did any of you guys get this SPAM? The ONLY eMail
> list
> > >or
> > >person that's EVER gotten this eMail address I'm using
> (AR--ZoomEmail.com)
> > >is
> > >the AR Mailing list. Are they selling our addresses?
> > >
>
>
>
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