RE: *** ADMIN: Newsgroup access!

["Draper, Dale" <dale.draper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm hoping your concerns are overstated. It does seem that the bots
primarily scan the alt. groups the most. I've received very few spams from
postings to a couple of rec. groups I participate on. And those are usenet
groups, as someone else mentioned, this newgroup is not part of that?

However we might ask Bradley V Stone who actively participate at
comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc
if he has any spam problems with his Yahoo account he uses for usenet
posting.

Brad?

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard B Baird [mailto:rbaird@esourceconsulting.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 5:39 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: *** ADMIN: Newsgroup access!



David,

>Well, this is always a risk.  But folks can farm from the mailing list
also.
>The news server isn't all that well publicized, so I wouldn't worry about
>it too much.

Just the same, email address farming is a valid concern.  The archives
don't list our email addresses (replaced with me@xxxxxxxx).  can we treat
email addresses the same way when it posts to the newsgroup?

I really don't like the idea of my email address being posted to a group
server (private or not) when I avoid news servers like the plague anyway.

spiders can find news servers - advertised or not, and harvest email
addresses automatically - private or not.   maybe we are already exposed
due to the mailing list, but I'd like to contain that exposure as much as
possible.

Rick
---original message---
From: David Gibbs <david@midrange.com>
Subject: RE: *** ADMIN: Newsgroup access!

At 08:53 PM 4/8/2002, you wrote:
>My main concern, however, is that newsgroup e-mail farmers may find out
>about this newsgroup and farm my e-mail.  I set up a spam account
primarily
>to be used when I post on newsgroups.  If you post an e-mail to a public
>newsgroup you are guaranteed to get tons of spam.  Been there, done that,
>got the lunch meat.

Well, this is always a risk.  But folks can farm from the mailing list
also.

The news server isn't all that well publicized, so I wouldn't worry about
it too much.

david


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