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On 14 Aug 2001 10:07:20 -0400, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
wrote:


>But I do know that the RFC strongly suggests you post with a valid address,
>and a lot of people out there are really pissed at the whole notion of
>munging your address to avoid spam.  It makes things MUCH harder for the
>usenet abuse folks when something goes wrong.

	Yes, I know; and the address I use here is perfectly
genuine. It's an alias, kindly provided & maintained by an eminent
spamfighter friend, whose acquaintance I made when I tried to follow
spam-L (and discovered I hadn't a prayer). It puts all my incoming
through *his* spamfilters, which are far better than any I could
hope to concoct -- or than verizon will try to. Verizon supports
phone spammers, fercrissake! 

>If you have a problem with spam, hiding your address will not solve the
>problem, only addressing the spammers themselves will.  I have taken two
>spammers to court so far, and if a few more folks did this, we would not
>have a spam problem.

	I'm not hiding it -- I'm filtering it. I don't have the
time, money, nor expertise to do any better against spammers myself
than Br'er Rabbit against a tar baby. Standard advice last time I
looked, to ordinary citizens with no hope of becoming hotshots, was
to avoid or minimize all possible contact with spammers, and I do
that. If you have what it takes to sue them, incarcerate them, or
exterminate them electronically, strength to your arm! I don't,
alas!
-- 
RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger
karhunhammas (at) lserv.com 
No spammer could ever be broke or hungry enough.
Send spam to spamrecycle@chooseyourmail.com
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