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
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