[Milsurplus] USEnet newsgroups... Danger Will Robinson!!!

[Unserviceable but Repairable]

Well written John!  Yup spam harvesters use netnews as a address
source incessantly.

Rather than a yahoo junk account, I employ this twist.

Posting is via an ancient reader called tin on linux/unix.  Threaded 
Internet News.  Release called "one more nightmare."

I do searches on google which is the best netnews/usenix ferret bar
none,  That's where you are when u click google's groups (news groups)
tab.

For posting I run giganews for $10/month.  It allows tin posts with
munged e-mail sender addresses of the type.  

    marty@ba-watchCYB.org

My footer advises reader to blitz the 3 characters preceding the dot
for direct correspondence.

Have to use this abstraction since google won't let u post w. munged 
addresses.  Seems more troublesome than your approach but bypasses 
sifting all the spam in the 'throwaway' address while looking for the 
pony in there as the old joke went.

To me, the google/giganews-tin boolah boolah has been hugely valuable.  
& greatly exceeds the annoyance of these little bumps

   Marty