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

[Michael Unger]

On 2011-12-15 22:47, "Phillip Helbig---undress to reply" wrote:

> 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 can't tell how much spam is sent to my "From:" address because it is a
pure spam sink. I get typically a one digit or low two digit number of
spams to my "Reply-To:" address -- within a full year. So usenet seems
to be really useless for address harvesters these days. Mostly phishing
attempts or "nigerian type" (advance fee fraud) mails ...

Michael

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