[Info-vax] "$ SET VERIFY" obsolete

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <517537f6$0$75661$815e3792 at news.qwest.net>, George Cornelius <gcornelius at charter.net> writes:
>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.

It's moot now.  Besides, this dialog concerning perfidy WRT posting the URL
is certain to bury the signal in a cesspool of noise.  Maybe, I'd have been
better off announcing this debugger to the LinkedIn crowd or on the VMS-sig
mailing list instead of comp.os.vms.

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