Surrender? Sorry, but in my book it's fighting back in just about
any sense of the phrase. Your comment on inconveniencing your
friends is well taken, though. I've been trying to figure out
whether it's really worth the hassle to them. Then again, you
probably didn't get the rather widely-distributed 'I got your
address from a newsgroup and want to trade kiddie porn' spam
originating from an AOL address that went around in early December.
That one message (and it was probably a troll) pissed me off so bad
I learned rather quickly how to contact the offender's postmaster.
I DON'T want to be subjected to that kind of message again.
>I used ROT-13 on my return address for a while, until I got a message from
>an old-timer who was ready to give up Usenet altogether... he'd just
>bounced a reply trying to reach me. A veteran, not a newbie. And here I
>was trying to reach out to newbies and be helpful to them.
ROT-13 seems like overkill to me. How many newsreaders besides Yarn
handle ROT-13? It seems like appending to your true address like I
have would be simpler and easier to edit. Not to mention more common.
And my original question about whether spambots strip all addresses
from a message header still hasn't been answered. I also asked in
c.o.o.mail-news, but haven't seen a reply yet. Anybody know of a
better newsgroup to ask this in?
And I AM sorry about the wasted bandwidth on this off-topic subject.
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