Re: Spam wars (was test)

"Richard Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anahata wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Freeman wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think it's the newsgroups.
> >
> > I do. Last year I posted two or three messages to some newsgroups from
my
> > work email address, and I get lots of spam now, which started about a
> > week after the postings. That address is not on a website, and I got no
> > spam at all before.
>
> Yes. I've seen both the From: and the Reply-To: lines from my news
postings
> used as addresses to spam. The first more frequently than the second, of
> course.

Interesting, and I've no reason to dispute either of your findings. It is
quite possible that my other email addresses were spammed from newsgroups
but I've only noticed changes in spam since I after I used them for other
reasons. I think I have used my folkinfo address for newsgroups more or less
since I started the site over a year ago. I've just looked through my
current spam, from the 26/11 - only 8 out of 208 have been sent to the
address I use here.

I guess the bottom line, even though I don't, is that it is wiser to use an
"anti-spam" address for newsgroups.

Jon