In article , gerrcoin wrote:

A lot of people who are relatively new to Usenet nievely use their
complete email address as a reply address. Spammers use bots
(automated software) to trawl Usenet groups for these email addresses
and add them to a mailing list. You may have noticed that most people
who have been posting for a while use malformed versions of their
email address with what's known as a spam trap part.

Of course, a lot of other people have good enough spam filtering that they
just use their real email address. If you wish to do that, you should contact
your ISP and get them to perform whatever filtering they can first (possibly
using a service like Postini), and then get a mail reader that allows you to
mark spam for automatic recognition.

People that are really paranoid do that *and* use a bogus reply address.

Mike Beede