Re: Policy change? Was: Moderator note: Newsgroup participants under virus attack

"Jim Ruzicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >Mike suggested in a
> > private e-mail that we (the moderators) automatically "munge" the e-mail
> > addresses of all approved messages. (For a discussion of munging, see
for
> > example: http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm )
> >
> > I can modify the moderation software to do this, but I think it needs
some
> > discussion and general agreement.
>
> I am all for this method of protecting us from spam.  I also am receiving
> countless spam emails every hour and am pretty sure it has something to do
> with the business newsgroups.  I have another email address (on another
> computer through the same ISP) and do not access these newsgroups through
> it, and have not received a single spam email like the recent ones coming
> through.
>
> Any munge format would be fine.  They all appear to be self-explanatory.
I
> wish I had been doing this myself before.  What a pain.
>
> Jim Ruzicka
> jim(at)nospam_scs-us(dot)com  : )
>
>

Personally, I agree with Jim, as I am also having serious troubles right
now. The problem is getting worse and worse. I've had that yahoo account for
at least a few years, and if things keep going the way they are, I am going
to have to shut that account down. What a shame!

I also understand that people want to have their email addresses published
as they wrote them within their post. As an alternative to munging, maybe we
moderators could drop a one-time note to all non-mungers that explains the
issue, etc.

Again, I'd like to say that the participants of many newsgroups are under
attack, not just the business groups. I'm thinking that some major spammers,
who get their addresses from Usenet, have virus infected computers.

Mike