[Info-vax] "$ SET VERIFY" obsolete

[George Cornelius]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> It's not so much a security thing as it is just trying to keep harvesters
> from getting the URL only to bang on the site with stupid hacks that will
> degrade my bandwidth even more.

I guess since I don't have a website to protect I don't think about that
particular kind of harvesting.

When using Eisner to post to Usenet I have noticed a pattern: you
get a burst of spam a short time after posting, but within a week or
two it drops back down to background levels.  Not quite as bad as the
old days, when Usenet was important enough that spammers could buy CD's
with addresses harvested from the newsgroups.

George