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[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiclothesvax.de> wrote:

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> 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.  

I have used this address for usenet for over 15 years, and it gets 
a few, maybe up to ten, spam a day.   I can live with that
(and many probably not from usenet harvests).

Another address that I don't use for usenet gets a few a day,
though most technically not spam.  Ones from companies that I bought
something from, whether or not I wanted them to send to me.

I used to believe it was because the number of new e-mail addresses
was increasing fast enough that the fraction that went to old ones
would decrease, but yes, it is probably that usenet isn't a big source.

-- glen