[Info-vax] [OT] Usenet posting, was: Re: "$ SET VERIFY" obsolete

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-04-21, George Cornelius <gcornelius at charter.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

There's a reason why I use a email address for a civilization which will
not exist for another ~150 years. :-)

IOW, is there any reason why you cannot anti-spam your posting address ?

Simon,

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