Pinging Choiliefan

Mill: It's funny that any time money is involved AOL lets me down. Never a problem getting tons of spam and queries from Nigeria scams but if it means a couple bucks in my pocket, without fail, I'm sol. It's a done deal and I've sent you the contact info. Thanks again and enjoy! Lance Check and correct the address if replying directly from here.

Well ... if you insist on posting with a munged e-mail address,

e.g. snipped-for-privacy@aol.commotion

(which is obviously munged) you've got to expect *real* people to have problems if you don't bother pointing out in your .sig that there are things which need to be done to fix the e-mail address. Note that in some systems, when replying to news articles, the actual e-mail address is not visible for long enough to make an impression.

Yes -- *I* see how to fix that, and so would anyone else who was in a position to look at the address and think about it for a moment.

However -- you *can't* expect that address munging to have any effect on copies of your address already captured years ago from newsgroups, or captured from the address books of friends whose computers get infected by the virii which harvest addresses for spammers.

So -- you got the problem you asked for.

DoN.

DoN: Could be a blessing in disguise for all I know. I'm not as open as you've been through the years. I still enjoy the Little Engines catalog I bought from you a couple years ago. Anyway, the deal is done Praise God and we all can move on. Health & Peace, Uncle Lucky

Well ... I've been using the same e-mail address for since sometime in the mid to late 1980s. :-) (And spam still comes occasionally with CCs to addresses of mine which have been out of service for at least that long. :-)

At this point, I don't want to change my e-mail address, so I am very active in spam-blocking -- helped by running my own e-mail server, so I *can* block as I wish.

"Little Engines catalog"?

Perhaps from another Don or another Nichols on the newsgroup?

As far as I can remember, I never *had* such a catalog to sell.

But -- whoever you got it from, I'm glad that you're enjoying it. :-)

Good Luck, DoN.

C'mon DoN, you sold me the thing and it was just a few bucks. Nothing the IRS needs to worry about so don't sweat it. Obviously it came from someone else. All the best, Lance