Just checked my rckymtnsoaring email account I use for usenet postings,
it has attracted zero spam. Don't know why the bots haven't picked it
up, but they haven't. Don't know why my news server insisted on using a
live email address, but they did. Don't know why Google Groups has such
a silly security mechanism, but they do. It all seems to work out.


On 10/01/2017 11:30 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
My spam filter takes care of the junk and it's very convenient to simply
have the messages in my email.Â* As I said, I was just curious.Â* And it's
been raining for the past week (over 3 inches here in New Mexico!), so
there's not much else fun to do right now...

On 10/1/2017 11:26 AM, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 9:38:56 AM UTC-7, Charlie M. (UH & 002
owner/pilot) wrote:
It's to keep "bots" from grabbing email addresses and then spamming
them, bots usually ignore the "encryption", but humans can figure it
out.
Headers from posts are also not usually visible to a bot.

Plenty of tech peeps here that can expand on it if you ask.
It's largely a silly waste of time, bots certainly scrape the headers
straight off USENET without going though Google Groups. Bots can also
reassemble the "encrypted" silliness. Of course what they scrap from
headers might be fake or burner addresses... up to how paranoid and
hard to contact you want to be.