Jerry Springer wrote:
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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.

...

Nonsense.

That's like saying tha tyou are as likely to crash flying in clear,
windless weather at noon as you are flying through the eye of a
tornado. While it is posible to crash either way the latter is
a certainty.

Either way

An email address on someone's PC might be compromised but one that
is posted in UseNet headers is certain to be harvested repeatedly.

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FF