Re: To SPAM or not to SPAM...

Wes wrote:
> It seems that for some time this list has been mirrored to Usenet without
> changing the originating email addresses.  Since Usenet is spammers Nirvana,
> that one little act results in everyone that posts to the postgres lists
> becoming SPAM fodder.
>
> Can something not be changed in the mailinglist-Usnet gateway such that the
> originating email addresses are either removed or scrambled so that posting
> to the mailing list doesn't result in your email address being plastered all
> over Usenet?  People that intentionally post to Usenet generally don't use a
> replyable email address.

It's not going to save you anything.  If you post to a list such as
this, there are archives of the posts that the spammers can get at just
as easily as Usenet.

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Until later, Geoffrey