Modelflyer wrote:
Just curious, but why do you post the real thing here, for spam bots to
harvest?

It has been observed that spammers generally harvest from the headers
rather than from the body of Usenet traffic. That said, a fair number
of
Usenet newsgroups are gated to webpages.

Regardless, I use a proper email address in the headers of my Usenet
articles because doing otherwise breaks an important useful feature
of NNTP.


I used to do that, I looked at any message as useful communication. Then the
spam got to be a little excessive, it got to the stage where I was deleting
over 99% of messages, so I changed my email address. About three months
later I checked my old address and found over 120 thousand messages, all
spam except for about 100 that were genuine. Went back to using that address
as my ISP has installed anti spam software, but I still don't use my real
address in the reply address option box.

If somebody want's to send me a "private" e-mail, I'll send them my address.
It's so easy to harvest addresses that it's foolhardy to leave oneself
exposed like that.

Foolhardy? nonsense, just because you do not know how to manage your
email program.
If you send your email address to someone you are just as likly to get
spammed from that as you are anywhere else. Anyone that puts your email
address in their address folder is setting you up for virus' and spam.

Jerry (not afraid of spammers or virus or to use my real email address)