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Originally posted by ******** if I can sort your mail out of the nigerian letter scams I'd likely be willing to write a track or two with you.

FYI, the more your post your email in public webspace, the more chances it gives spam bots to pick it up and use it to spam you

if you're gonna post your email online, post it like this

name(at)yahoo(dot)com


perhaps you won't get so many nigerian email scams that way

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Originally posted by EtherealSL FYI, the more your post your email in public webspace, the more chances it gives spam bots to pick it up and use it to spam you if you're gonna post your email online, post it like this name(at)yahoo(dot)com perhaps you won't get so many nigerian email scams that way

You might need to be even more clever than that. If I were designing a spam-bot, I would have it look for that sort of naming scheme as well, because I know people do that.

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Originally posted by david.michael You might need to be even more clever than that. If I were designing a spam-bot, I would have it look for that sort of naming scheme as well, because I know people do that.

that is true... plenty of people put spaces or periods inbetween each letter of the email as well

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Hmmm... I too think that a MIDI keyboard (or any keyboard with MIDI capabilities) is a pretty important part of any music production set-up. To be honest, I've never seen a production studio (mixing studio is another story) in my life WITHOUT a keyboard connected to a sequencer.
Sure I often use a mouse to input notes into my sequencer once I know the melody, but just to get some idea of what something will sound like I can't imagine myself clicking away at the piano roll, that would be extremely inefficient and frustrating to say the least. Also, I often find it a lot faster to play a melody using a keyboard and then quantize it rather than entering it in note by note with a mouse. Of course, for very fast melodies and arpeggios a mouse works great, but I would still use a keyboard to hear what those might sound like.

So yes, a keyboard is not essential, you can certainly produce without one, but I definitely would NOT recommend it. Having a keyboard in front of you just for something as simple as previewing a sound while creating a synth patch makes the production process a lot simpler.

My 2 cents.

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Originally posted by EtherealSL that is true... plenty of people put spaces or periods inbetween each letter of the email as well

Won't work either.

The only really safe way to do it is to put it in an image. Yeah, they can OCR it, but even with their botnets, spammers don't have the resources to OCR every single image on every single web site.

There are some other "clever" ways to obfuscate addresses that usually work. One of them is using JavaScript to put it on the page, since spam bots and harvesters usually don't parse JS. You can also put some obfuscated invisible HTML around it designed to screw up most common e-mail regexes, but it's not much less risky than just posting it straight.

Or you could post an "equation" that only a human would recognize, like "john.[the letter before T]@blah.com". Kind of a pain in the ass for the users though, many of whom tend to be stupid.

Anyway - any free e-mail address (Yahoo, Hotmail, probably Gmail too) will get tons of spam irrespective of any of this. You don't want spam, get a real address. And don't even think about using it for MSN messenger or the like.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Won't work either. The only really safe way to do it is to put it in an image. Yeah, they can OCR it, but even with their botnets, spammers don't have the resources to OCR every single image on every single web site. There are some other "clever" ways to obfuscate addresses that usually work. One of them is using JavaScript to put it on the page, since spam bots and harvesters usually don't parse JS. You can also put some obfuscated invisible HTML around it designed to screw up most common e-mail regexes, but it's not much less risky than just posting it straight. Or you could post an "equation" that only a human would recognize, like "john.[the letter before T]@blah.com". Kind of a pain in the ass for the users though, many of whom tend to be stupid. Anyway - any free e-mail address (Yahoo, Hotmail, probably Gmail too) will get tons of spam irrespective of any of this. You don't want spam, get a real address. And don't even think about using it for MSN messenger or the like.

had no idea... word! i guess your safe bet is to just not put it on publics space

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Originally posted by DigiNut Anyway - any free e-mail address (Yahoo, Hotmail, probably Gmail too) will get tons of spam irrespective of any of this. You don't want spam, get a real address. And don't even think about using it for MSN messenger or the like.

That's not true. I get no spam. But then my gmail username is 17 characters long, so they're probably never gonna guess it.

Yeah i have gmail and i have never got spam.