I've just acquired a blue Bosch GBH 2 SR SDS drill, 230v. Sort of charity auction with blind bids. It was built in 2001 but works perfectly & doesn't seem to have had a hard life.
I'm knee deep in SDS drills & don't need it. If its any good to anybody & they can collect from (a) the Medway Towns (b) Barnehurst, near Bexley or (c) Fulham I don't want anything for it.
First to e-mail me off group snipped-for-privacy@blueyonder.co.uk can have it.
I'm not sure what the benefit if having the 'nospam' address in your message header is if you're going to do that ;-)
Incidentally giving stuff away is starting to bug me, purely because I suspect the majority of it gets grabbed by folk who have no actual use for it, but who bung it straight on ebay. I suppose that shouldn't irritate, because once it's theirs they should be free to do whatever they want with it, but it still grates somehow... :(
That might be why I included my real e mail address :-)
Indeed - but what's the point of hiding your address from the spammers if you're just going to outright give it to them in the message? Now the WD40 police will find you :(
But it's a POP to de-munge FFS!
Or sell at the local car boot. This is a problem for many freecycle groups but in well managed ones such people soon stand out and get knobbled.
Agreed, it's been given away to that person to use and benefit from it's use not to be sold and proceeds pissed up against the wall, wafted into the air or support a couch potatoes habit.
Well, yes... :-) Always wondered if spammers are armed to the teeth with software which tries to de-munge 'obvious' addresses, or if they just have people doing that task... (or if they just don't bother because it's not worth it, in which even the most trivial of address masking is good enough)
It might be terriorial / economical, too. The Cambridge one was very good, but my one out here in the wilds of the US is awful - people giving away crud (if only kittens were currency!) and anything remotely useful gets pounced on by a few thousand lurkers.
Maybe someone could draw up a legally-binding contract along the lines of "send me a photo of the item in a year's time or you owe me x quid" ;)
cheers
Jules
Interestingly, research suggests[1] that harvesting of email addresses from usenet is *far* more likely to happen with addresses that appear in the headers that those that just appear in the body text.
[1] An oldish, but interesting paper:
Not surprising really. It's much quicker to download thousands of headers only instead of complete messages. Having downloaded them it's a simple matter to filter out just the "From:" lines and extract the address with a simple regex. Scanning the entire message body would be much more time consuming, and not even yield any results for the majority of messages.
Same logic seems to apply to web harvesting as well. Much less hassle to get the HTML and read the source code for "mailto:" links, rather than have to do any processing/unescaping or execution of Jscript to render obfuscated email addresses machine readable.
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