Why not a private news server?

[Ludis Langens]

gabe wrote:
> 
> I'm sure spammers browse and dream of spamming EFI332 quite often, LOL...
> That is far more trouble than most spammers are going to go to, in fact if they go to
> that much trouble, wouldn't they be spamming us currently??  There are too many easy
> to harvest address on USENET and that can be siphoned straight from the web to bother
> with going thru several steps to piss off a small group like us, who will probably
> report them for violating the group.

Someone _did_ harvest email addresses from the list a few months ago. 
They spammed the list, got bumped off, and then sent the same spam to me
via direct email.  I think they harvested addresses of anyone who posted
while they were harvesting.  In the following few weeks, I also received
two more direct spams, apparently from the same source.  The direct
spams were the first I've ever received at this email address.

A suggestion for the archives:  Message headers should be stripped of
email addresses - at least for the archive copy posted on the net.  Same
thing for paths.  Message authors could still be reached if they include
their address in their signature.  Such addresses are harder to harvest automagically.

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Ludis Langens                               ludis (at) cruzers (dot) com
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