Jay Garcia wrote: > On 05/09/02 11:42, krutch Replied As Follows: > > --- Original Message --- > > >>Jay Garcia wrote: >> >> >>>Many users, I for one, use the SECURE server(s) and I post with my REAL >>>mail address. I don't particularly care to have my real address spread >>>all over usenet. I have the good fortune to own my own mail server and >>>therefore have many *throw-away* addresses mainly so that I can track >>>where spam harvesting originates. >> >>Actually over in the <news.software.readers> group a couple of years ago >>an individual did some testing. He found that harvesters often parse the >> "from" line only and NOT the "reply-to". Therefore at this point in >>time, the most effective way to spam protect is to use the following >>format. Notice the proper use of the "invalid" domain. One shouldn't use >>a remove spam tramp line. Ending in an invalid top level domain is the >>proper way to spam trap <ie>: >> >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>That's the proper syntax and one won't receive much in the way of UCE, >>at least whenever the foregoing example is used. >> >>Now, my issue is that Mozilla and NN7 don't work properly doing this. >>Whenever I attempt to do this, with either, each post I respond to, >>sends MY followup, or composition to the "Reply-To". This is the only >>newsreader, e-mail client that has ever done this. >> > > > I got news (no pun intended) for you. The modern up-to-date harverting > bots look for many things now, including the reply-to. They're also > sophisticated enough to look for NOSPAM in your mail address as well as > other munge tactics.
Actually, harvesters by and large don't, repeat don't, harvest all the headers and especially the reply-to. I don't receive any UCE to the reply-to I use with my "other" nntp client [slrn] and I'm quite prolific on Usenet and have been for years. The overhead for large parsing of all headers is too time consuming for large scale harvesting operations. > As to your other problem, when you choose to "reply to all" or both > "sender and newsgroup" this will happen. If you reply to "group only" it > won't. It does it on a reply - Control-R. Isn't the the same as followup to group only? Hmm - I'll check it out to see if this is so. I'm pretty sure I'm already tried this. Thanks for responding.
