RE: *** ADMIN: Newsgroup access!

On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 14:04, Draper, Dale wrote:
>
> 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?

Hi Dale

I'm not Brad but I do post to a number of Usenet groups, including
comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc and I do get some spam (maybe five a day at
most, usually only one or two). The majority (up to 30 at present) come
by way of a number of unmoderated mailing lists that I'm on, where
someone spams the list and all recipients get it :( Fortunately that
doesn't happen (rarely, if ever) here. Interestingly very little comes
to this email address, which is always posted in clear text in my
signature in all my posts, whether email or Usenet. A number of people
use some form of spam trap in their reply-to address or use an obviously
fake made up one, with their real address in their signature.

Regards, Martin
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