On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Sam Ewalt wrote: > I gave up on the newsgroups several years ago. There seems to be a > relevant mailing list for most subjects. > > Besides, posting to newsgroups is a sure fire way to increase your > spam load.
I don't get that much. Maybe 70 a month, and some of those are from here, believe it or not. Since all these messages are archived and web-accessible, the spambots can find you here just as easily as on usenet. > Also keep in mind that anything you *ever* posted to a newsgroup > will now be archived, indexed, and accessible forever. So that > stupid flame war that you got caught up in years ago just might > come back to haunt you. Use X-No-Archive: yes in your news articles, and they don't get archived. OTOH, everything you write to this list DOES get archived, and there's no such "out" as with newsgroups. -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (for your green bean needs) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
