NTL & WIRELESS CONNECTION

First - do something about posting your email address!

I'm guessing you need a new WiFi AP/router, as yours is an all in one ADSL unit. I'm on ntl and use a Linksys WRT54G AP/router and this works superbly.

"__spc__" wrote in news:8Rhdf.1771$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe3-win.ntli.net:

i.e. munge it to avoid spammers picking it out.

Spot on. As the ADSL modem has an Ethernet interface, you can add a wireless router (non-ADSL) to achieve what is wanted.

Pick a known brand name e.g. Linksys, Netgear, D-Link.

Make sure you set up WPA-PSK security on the wireless LAN, to avoid piggybackers and hackers.

Jenny,

Many thanks for the information.

regards Richard

Nope. Spammers are still around and quite active. See:

a list of the most active spammers. The list has hardly changed in the last few years with only the addition of phishers and Nigerians as the major change. To convince the public that the governments are actually doing something against spam, a few get prosecuted: What has changed is that virus and spam filtering techniques have improved and become more prevalent at both the ISP and the desktop. They're far from perfect, but have drastically reduced the amount of spam that is being propagated and seen.

I've been using my various real email addresses since the stone age of the internet. I also have a few email addresses that are rarely used for anything beyond testing and emergencies (when the mail servers are down). After filtering, the amount of spam received by the public and private addresses are about the same.

Mangling email addresses is also totally useless as methinks the major source of valid email addresses is NOT from harvesting usenet, blogs, or whois data. It comes directly from the ISP via dubious sources. It only takes one employee that wants some extra cash to sell a cdrom full of their customer names and email addresses. For example, I setup a new sbcglobal.net account for a DSL customer and was greeted with spam within about an hour. As the signup web pages were SSL encrypted, the source could only have been within SBC or Yahoo.

To me, address mangling is like hiding under a rock.

Not terribly important, actually -- I get very little spam on addresses I use for Usenet postings.

John Navas wrote in news:GpJdf.92714$ snipped-for-privacy@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:

Certainly used to be a problem a year or two ago. Maybe now Usenet users are more wary, the spammers have largely given up trawling groups.