[Info-vax] "$ SET VERIFY" obsolete

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00AD22D5.18F9CED7 at sendspamhere.org>,
	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 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.
 
You think LinkedIn is safer.  Hahahahahahahaha......

bill

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