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

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:02:03 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

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

I have a bunch of mail filters set up on my Mac which eat a surprising 
amount of spam.  I switched it off for the night a couple of days ago and 
on looking at my email from another system the next morning I had about 
50 spams all advertising the same online gaming site.

They got my address from somewhere a few years ago, and it appears that 
they never forget it, although there do seem to be lulls in activity.


-- 
Paul Sture