[Info-vax] For sale: HP Integrity rx2600 parts (various)

[Michael Moroney]

helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:

>In article <jcdk77$chc$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
>(Michael Moroney) writes: 

>> Anyway, email me at moroney at world dot std dot com .
>> 
>> (I hate having to do it that way, I am avoiding spammer's email address
>> harvesters)

>While I still have the historical spam block, I think these days hardly 
>anyone harvests usenet for email addresses.  Why should they?  It's just 
>a small fraction of people with email addresses, and the probability 
>that they respond positively to spam is much lower than in the general 
>population.

You're forgetting Rule 3 of spam: "Spammers are stupid."  They won't
consider whether the recipients are favorable to spam, esp. if they don't
spam themselves but sell lists to other spammers.  I don't think any
address harvester will knowingly bypass a source of addresses, but these
days, I assume many spammers simply don't know about usenet, or only know
of it through Google Groups (which hides addresses).

However, many sites (besides Google) put Usenet postings onto web
pages, and spammers know about the web and certainly they have
spiders harvesting addresses from web pages.