--On Friday, June 06, 2003 7:34 PM +0100 Jim Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I set up a spamtrap account to seed any postings to the NGs I use FWIW, I post to newsgroups with ".blacklist" appended to my name in the From line and my real address in the Reply-To. The stuff that arrives at that address is 99% spam, the exceptions being largely broken newsreaders (Outlook Express) that don't honor Reply-To in news. Spammers, wanting to save work, harvest newsgroups by downloading just selected headers (a limitation of the NNTP protocol) and The Reply-To line is not in this list. To get that line, the spammer has to download article bodies, which for most isn't worth their time. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk