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TC Member list & "Wrong Hands"




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From:  Bill Noble [SMTP:william_b_noble-at-email.msn-dot-com]
Sent:  Tuesday, March 17, 1998 8:22 PM
To:  Tesla List
Cc:  lau-at-hdecad.ENET.dec-dot-com
Subject:  Re: TC Member list & "Wrong Hands"

it won't work unless you also modify your mailer to lie about the source of
the message - this is embedded in the SMTP header

>From:  Gary Lau  15-Mar-1998 1953 [SMTP:lau-at-hdecad.ENET.dec-dot-com]
>Sent:  Sunday, March 15, 1998 7:14 PM
>To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject:  TC Member list & "Wrong Hands"
>
>>> One person was worried this information would fall into the wrong hands.
>>>
>>What are the wrong hands??????????????????  If the FBI sees you are making
>>Tesla coils they will know you are just nuts and not a terrorist or other
>>serious threat to humanity.
>>
>>jim heagy
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>That may have been me.
>
>I've heard that there are search engines that crawl the web, searching for
>EMAIL addresses, lists of which are sold to businesses to direct their
>SPAM junk mail.  I get several per week, I'm suspecting from my address
>appearing in TESLA list posts archived on the web.  Obviously, in my
>case, the "damage" is done, but further spammings could be prevented by
>disguising email addresses appearing in such a list of coilers, by
>replacing "-at-" and "."  characters with "_at_" and "_dot" - human but not
>machine understandable.
>
>I don't think I'm paranoid, am I?
>
>Gary Lau
>Waltham, MA USA
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