Re: contacts

I know what you mean.

What you do is, make a contact that is just called 1 or 0 without an email 
address.
If you now get affected by forward spamming it will fail on the first 
contact (and will notify you) as this contact is now on top of your contact 
list and will halt.

It will not stop you from being affected but it is a good indication and 
stops you from forwarding spam.

Cheers, Peter


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Billns" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 8:48 AM
Subject: [discuss] Re: contacts


> On 5/31/2011 5:31 AM, ceilwallace wrote:
>> I don't know if this has anything to do with Open Office but I'll try
>> anyway.
>> Years ago, I read where if you put a cerain combination of 0's and 1's
>> at the beginning of your contacts list it cannot be pirated or used for
>> spam as the computer doesn't recognize it. I know I did it and, back
>> then there wasn't such a problem of spamming, I don't know if it really
>> worked. Can you tell me if this is true and what would be the exact
>> combination of those numbers.
>> cw
>
> You are correct in that this has nothing to do with Open Office. I've been 
> using personal computers since 1983 and have never heard of such a 
> procedure.
>
> Bill
>
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