From:Backyard Bob Electronic:somewhere -A- NewJersey
Subject:RE: Anti-SPAM measures Date:Thu Sep 30 20:22:00 2010
Response to:14325
Stella, you hussy, you broke my heart. Here I was thinkin' I was finally bein' appreciated for my love of these fine motorcycles by a lady with taste enough to send me flowers. Then I find you're actually flirting with all the boys here! Shame on you.

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Due to the Spam from Stella...

We've changed the way email addresses appear in the header of each message.

Instead of the word "e-mail:", it's now "Electronic:"

Instead of joe@somewhere.com, it's "joe -A- somewhere.com"

Example:

From: Dave
Electronic: joe -A- somewhere.com
Subject: Battery
Date: Thu Sep 30 00:00:00 2010

If you post a message on the Exchange that contains an email address in the BODY of your message, please follow the same convention.

If you cut and paste an email from a message into your email program, you'll have to manually change -A- to @

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What probably happened is that "Stella" read every message on the Exchange, and copied down anything with an @ in it. Of course, she didn't do this manually - it's very easy to automate.

The changes we made are not foolproof, but will thwart many of the email-harvesting programs floating around out there.

If you got a message from Stella - and have NEVER posted a message on the Hummer Exchange, please let me know - maybe I need to do something different.

Dave