Some gardening safety tips...

 Some important warnings, DO NOT post advertisements, DO NOT post your REAL
NAME or EMAIL, and DO NOT post ANYTHING to this email forum that you do not
want search engines to find, and DO NOT post CONTACT INFO of any kind. This
will prevent a lot of problems in these areas...and will help stop your own
computer from being compromised....

 Jonno wrote:

Giving your correct email will certainly produce a deluge of spam, there are
bots that trawl newsgroups looking for just that.  But what will somebody do
with my real name?  Given the many places names can be found isn't this a
little paranoid?  Now for those who may not want to be accountable for what
they say (not saying everybody who gives a false name is like that) I can
see why they would want to be anonymous.

David

 

Tying things together is what happens once they have your name.
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you!
That goes for anyone.
Wonder where spam comes from?

 
smtp servers generally

 

Indeed.  I agree with you, but then perhaps David hasn't had an attempted
murder of a member of his family.  That tends to focus one's attention
somewhat, and such an attempt doesn't even necessarily involve using the
Net, but it does make one focus on what information and tracking can go on
without one being aware of it.