On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:31:39 -0800, Steve wrote: > 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. And it gets archived in more places than you'de think. ;-) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Volume in drive E is MCCORKLE_03 Directory of E:\ARACHNE\DIGEST 5,032,128 11-10-01 5:44p e:\arachne\digest\05501000.zip 5,607,624 11-10-01 5:49p e:\arachne\digest\10011500.zip 3,110,470 3-29-02 9:31p e:\arachne\digest\digest.zip 4,439,693 5-09-01 6:42p e:\arachne\digest\old\dgst-old.zip total files 4 total bytes 18,189,915 -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.zorg.org/unixhumour/
