Spam and Newsgroups Question

In article <[email hidden]>,

Tom Nakashima said:

Anyone know if people who use the newsgroups get more "spam
mail" than ones who don't use the newsgroups?

Absolutely, every Usenet article is scanned by harvesters
for addresses. It's just like putting your email address on
a public web page.

--Paul

Tom Nakashima said:

Anyone know if people who use the newsgroups get more
"spam mail" than ones who don't use the newsgroups?

I'd guess that the ones who use their valid e-mail addresses
do -- and so probably do those who fudge 'em with common
things like "nospam" or whatever.

Then again, I know quite a few people who get TONS of spam
daily, and do /not/ read newsgroups at all (AFAIK).

Bill "no help whatsoever" S.

Tom Nakashima said:

Anyone know if people who use the newsgroups get more
"spam mail" than ones who do

If you use your real address you will.

I like using www.spamgourmet.com. They will forward a
specified # of emails to you, keeping your real email
hidden.

www.mailinator.com is very handy for sites that require
email for sign-up. You can create
[email hidden] then go check it, it lasts
for just a few hours.

With the tools that are available now, you can keep certain
addresses very private now.

sittingduck said:

Tom Nakashima said:

Anyone know if people who use the newsgroups get more
"spam mail" than ones who do

If you use your real address you will.

I like using www.spamgourmet.com. They will forward
a specified # of emails to you, keeping your real
email hidden.

www.mailinator.com is very handy for sites that require
email for sign-up. You can create
[email hidden] then go check it, it
lasts for just a few hours.

With the tools that are available now, you can keep
certain addresses very private now.

Even if you dont' keep it that private, spam even through
hotmail is pretty good. They seem to have gotten the spam
filters pretty well and have filtered out (correctly) nearly
all my spam. I receive about one or two spams per week.

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

RE/

Quoted message said:

Anyone know if people who use the newsgroups get more "spam
mail" than ones who don't use the newsgroups?

Only if they put their email addresses in postings.

--
PeteCresswell

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:24:42 -0700, "Tom Nakashima"

may have said:

Anyone know if people who use the newsgroups get more "spam
mail" than ones who don't use the newsgroups?

Yes, generally.

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--
My email address is antispammed; pull WEEDS if replying via e-mail.
Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature.
Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

Tom Nakashima said:

Anyone know if people who use the newsgroups get more
"spam mail" than ones who don't use the newsgroups?

Of course. When I changed ISPs recently I set up 7 accounts,
the only one that is receiving spam is my Usenet account
which is this one. I don't like obsfucating my address so
I'll just use temp ones if the spam gets to be too much.

Greg

Tom Nakashima said:

Anyone know if people who use the newsgroups get more "spam
mail" than ones who don't use the newsgroups?

Counterintuitively, the address I use [unmunged] for posting
to these newsfroups gets less spam than other addresses. It
does, however, get a lot more viruses, worms, and other
malicious code.
--
Rick Onanian

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:37:47 -0400, Rick Onanian <[email hidden]>

may have said:

Tom Nakashima said:

Anyone know if people who use the newsgroups get more
"spam mail" than ones who don't use the newsgroups?

Counterintuitively, the address I use [unmunged] for
posting to these newsfroups gets less spam than other
addresses. It does, however, get a lot more viruses, worms,
and other malicious code.

I believe that you commented once that the spammers may be
removing the "spam" from the string on the mistaken
assumption that it's a munging inclusion. The Swen worm, on
the other hand, harvests and pounds blindly at any address
it finds in Usenet headers.

--
My email address is antispammed; pull WEEDS if replying via e-mail.
Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature.
Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

Tom Nakashima said:

Anyone know if people who use the newsgroups get more
"spam mail" than ones who don't use the newsgroups? -tom

Lots - hence the Yahoo! address which is pretty well
spamtrapped, although it does work, honest. As for the
pseudonym - that's just to protect myself from future
employers etc.

Quoted message said:

Anyone know if people who use the newsgroups get more
"spam mail" than ones who don't use the newsgroups?

There seems to be plenty of evidence showing that to be the
case, which is why I munge my e-mail address [to foil
automated spambots], which has the added bonus of
eliminating e-mail from those n00bs who are too clueless to
figure it out.