[Milsurplus] Usenet/SPAM/Reflectors

[aGEnuine Ham]

A very good point was made not to use a viable email address when posting
to the newsgroups.  On the other hand, courtesy requires that some reply
address be provided in many cases however, and there are several ways to
distort an address to fend off the harvesting spambots and still be human
readable.  More on that later.  Don't simply imbed your address or anyone
else's in the body of the text either, as that is also fair game.

>From experience, I must disagree with the statement that posting to these
reflectors produces no SPAM.  I have had to change addresses twice on
this reflector because the digests, which I am told are available to
non-menbers and thus to spambots, contain clean email addresses UNLESS
you deselect that option when registering.  I wasn't aware of that
necessity until the third try, but I admit since I made that change it
has been SPAM free so far.  For details of that selection, see the FAQs,
which I don't have at my fingertips at the moment.

73,
George
W5VPQ

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