PAF and Family Tree Maker 2005

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Barbara

PAF and Family Tree Maker 2005

Legg inn av Barbara » 19 mar 2005 03:45:11

Are these two programs compatible? Thanks, Barb
Also, had a question about spam. Have been getting more spam lately after
using newsgroups. Is that usual or is there a way to disguise email from
spam bots?

Kay Archer

Re: PAF and Family Tree Maker 2005

Legg inn av Kay Archer » 19 mar 2005 07:40:02

"Barbara" <bwillia5@stx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:XmM_d.24113$8D.18344@tornado.texas.rr.com...
Are these two programs compatible? Thanks, Barb
They share the GEDCOM format for trading genealogy files.



Also, had a question about spam. Have been getting more spam lately after
using newsgroups. Is that usual
Yes.


or is there a way to disguise email from
spam bots?


Yes. "Munging" your name before posting in newsgroups may prevent spam. In

your Outlook Express (*), click on tools, accounts, then the news tab, then
properties. Change the address to a free email address (**)(and be sure to
delete all the mail there about once a week or so). Post your regular
address inside the message in a human readable form such as bwilla5 (at)
stx.rr.com. The bots that harvest names from the newsgroups look at both
the return address and the body of the messages.



Other info: http://www.cyberangels.org/spam.html



*Are you going to ask how I knew which program you use to post?
**Using a bogus address may create problems for other people and will
definitely add to the traffic on the internet.

Thor

Re: PAF and Family Tree Maker 2005

Legg inn av Thor » 19 mar 2005 07:51:56

Kay Archer wrote:

Yes.
or is there a way to disguise email from
spam bots?


Yes. "Munging" your name before posting in newsgroups may prevent spam.
In your Outlook Express (*), click on tools, accounts, then the news tab,
then
properties. Change the address to a free email address (**)(and be sure
to
delete all the mail there about once a week or so). Post your regular
address inside the message in a human readable form such as bwilla5 (at)
stx.rr.com. The bots that harvest names from the newsgroups look at both
the return address and the body of the messages.



Other info: http://www.cyberangels.org/spam.html



*Are you going to ask how I knew which program you use to post?
**Using a bogus address may create problems for other people and will
definitely add to the traffic on the internet.

Another method is to keep your newsgroup reader and email program seperate.
Outlook express is not a good newsreader, use free agent instead. Outlook
is easy to break and there are a lot of people out there who can do things
like the to you. You cannot read anything after this begin :outlook
express is a heap of crap and those who use it are stupid. It's a stupid
bug that Microsoft has never seemed able to fix or even come to terms with
there are several others. There are also a couple that completely crash the
program, by using basically bogus html.


--
*~~~~~~~~~~~Thor

Steve Hayes

Re: PAF and Family Tree Maker 2005

Legg inn av Steve Hayes » 19 mar 2005 09:30:04

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:45:11 GMT, "Barbara" <bwillia5@stx.rr.com> wrote:

Are these two programs compatible? Thanks, Barb
Also, had a question about spam. Have been getting more spam lately after
using newsgroups. Is that usual or is there a way to disguise email from
spam bots?

Yes, it is usual.

The solution is to get a webmail address from Yahoo or Hotmail (see mine!) and
use that for newsgroups.

The webmail addresses allow you to delete junkmail and never see it, or to
toss it into a junkmail folder, where you can delete it with one click.

I've found Yahoo! more reliable than Hotmail.



--
Steve Hayes
E-mail: hayesmstw@hotmail.com (see web page if it doesn't work)
Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7783/

Kurt F

Re: PAF and Family Tree Maker 2005

Legg inn av Kurt F » 19 mar 2005 12:36:24

"Thor" <thor@valhalla.bbs.corn> wrote in message
news:h_P_d.10973$1S4.1154292@news.xtra.co.nz...
Kay Archer wrote:

Yes.

or is there a way to disguise email from
spam bots?


Yes. "Munging" your name before posting in newsgroups may prevent spam.
In your Outlook Express (*), click on tools, accounts, then the news
tab,
then
properties. Change the address to a free email address (**)(and be sure
to
delete all the mail there about once a week or so). Post your regular
address inside the message in a human readable form such as bwilla5 (at)
stx.rr.com. The bots that harvest names from the newsgroups look at
both
the return address and the body of the messages.



Other info: http://www.cyberangels.org/spam.html



*Are you going to ask how I knew which program you use to post?
**Using a bogus address may create problems for other people and will
definitely add to the traffic on the internet.

Another method is to keep your newsgroup reader and email program
seperate.
Outlook express is not a good newsreader, use free agent instead. Outlook
is easy to break and there are a lot of people out there who can do things
like the to you. You cannot read anything after this begin :outlook
express is a heap of crap and those who use it are stupid. It's a stupid
bug that Microsoft has never seemed able to fix or even come to terms with
there are several others. There are also a couple that completely crash
the
program, by using basically bogus html.

Well, I am one of those stupid persons who uses Outlook Express.
In addition I uses my real email-address in my postings, as I really hate
helping people who makes it impossible to use the Reply button. If a reply
bounces I forget the question, and goes on with my own life.
I have an ADSL connection and are thus always connected.
I uses Mailwasher to scan the emails before I download them and I normally
receive not more than a couple of spam-mail a week.
If you are doing serious genealogical research, don´t make it hard for other
persons to reach you. You will be the only one to suffer.

With Kind Regards
Kurt F

Christopher Jahn

Re: PAF and Family Tree Maker 2005

Legg inn av Christopher Jahn » 19 mar 2005 14:37:04

"Kurt F" <kurt.fredriksson@ieee.org> wrote in
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"Thor" <thor@valhalla.bbs.corn> wrote in message
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Kay Archer wrote:

Yes.

or is there a way to disguise email from
spam bots?


Yes. "Munging" your name before posting in newsgroups may prevent
spam. In your Outlook Express (*), click on tools, accounts, then
the news tab, then properties.

If you are doing serious genealogical research, don´t make it hard for
other persons to reach you. You will be the only one to suffer.


That's why I use a aa webmail address in newsgroups; it's a valid
address, and the provider has a pretty extensive SPAMfilter.

With my mail client's own filter (I use Thunderbird), SPAM is negligible,
and people can get in touch with me.

The other advantage to a webmail address is that it doesn't change if you
switch ISP's. How many times have you been looking through old messages
on Ancestor.com's forums and found someone who may have key data only to
find their email address isn't valid anymore?

BTW, most computer security advisors do maintain that the most effective
startegy in fighting the spread of viruses and worms is to stop using
Outlook Express. It's the screen door on your computer.


--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( http://home.comcast.net/~xjahn/Main.html

I... have become... comfortably numb

Alan Jones

Re: PAF and Family Tree Maker 2005

Legg inn av Alan Jones » 22 mar 2005 03:28:53

1st, are they compatible? Well, yes in that they both and write out and read
in genealogy
in a common file format called GEDCom. They can understand the various
fields.

2nd, bad people write programs that scan through the newsgroups to collect
email addresses
and then they send out spam or sell the address.




"Barbara" <bwillia5@stx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:XmM_d.24113$8D.18344@tornado.texas.rr.com...
Are these two programs compatible? Thanks, Barb
Also, had a question about spam. Have been getting more spam lately after
using newsgroups. Is that usual or is there a way to disguise email from
spam bots?

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