On 31 Dec 2006 06:29:26 -0800, Jay Honeck wrote:

Real spambots don't harvest addresses using Google Groups. G

True enough. The point being that if ALL newsreader software truncated
in-line email addresses like Google Groups,

google groups is only a (free) nntp provider with a web frontend.

perhaps the spammers would
start to wither...

ha! and what keeps a spammer off from setting up his own nntp server?

#m
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