Mike Spurgeon wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:2. I publish my real email address in every posting.For over 20 years. See results in the last line.3. I seldom have more than a half-dozen spam messages a day, which I can delete before reading in about 20 seconds.I'd call you lucky.My filters catch about 75% but there was a day or two last week when I was getting 5000+.
It's hard to believe I've been "lucky" for so many years! Although it's a little tricky figuring out how to tell, I'd be willing to bet that your spam explosions came from some other source than bots scanning your newsgroup postings. I think this "threat" is mostly urban myth. -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."