Johannes, On Wednesday, March 03, 2004, Johannes Posel wrote in <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> receive some spam at the address I use for public newsgroups, but >> it's easily filtered; and I receive no spam from, and see no >> spamming posts on, newsgroups on secure servers that require >> authentication. > Sorry. It doesn't depend on the newsserver. News is feeded through > many servers, and it is very easy for spammers to feed their junk of > to say de.* or comp.* You're confusing newsgroups with the Usenet. The Usenet is a web of public newsgroups. Older than the http-based World Wide Web, it's a nearly anarchic collection of groups that are analogous to publicly accessible bulletin boards. Each group is a "newsgroup." The same model of newsgroups and the same protocol have been adapted by many organizations who run secure, dedicated servers. Those groups require authentication to join, to read messages, and to post. While the same newsreader in your computer can be used to read Usenet postings and private newsgroup postings, they nevertheless should not be confused. Private newsgroup postings do *not* propagate to the Usenet. They are *not* available at groups.google.com. There is *no* way that e-mail addresses appearing in a properly configured private newsgroup can be harvested, other than by a third party's hacking into the system or a user's reading the groups at a compromised computer. -- JN ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.04.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
