On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:18:26 +0800, "DIAMOND Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> ... University policy is to avoid putting email
> addresses that can be extracted by spammers in the body of newsgroup
> postings.
That would seem to be a misguided and unnecessary policy. And, having
just decoded your address to type it in (since Forte Agent sends an
Email copy), I can say, "I will never do *that* again" unless there
is some good reason.
I give my address as REPLY address and in the body of my text and I
have posted 15 or 20 times a week, for three years. I hardly see any
SPAM at all -- a median of one or items per week, and some of those
were sent to a different email address (so I know I can't blame the
newsgroup for them).
I hear that some bulk-mailers avoid ".edu" addresses. But I don't
think all of them do. Also, my ISP weeds out the stuff that is
detectable as a bulk mailing -- addressed to everyone at the ISP, or
with too many dollar signs in the subject line. And if my University/
ISP can weed-out so successfully, maybe you should ask yours to ask
for advice?
No, by my own experience, and from what I have read elsewhere, I think
that your name is far more likely to be gleaned from websites that you
visit. Though, it is possible that some *other* particular
newsgroups happen to be a place where Spammers harvest names.
--
Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
