Re: Off Topic: E-Mail Security in this Group
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- Subject: [mg117807] Re: Off Topic: E-Mail Security in this Group
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:07:02 -0500 (EST)
I agree with Helen; spam isn't that big an issue. It never really was, even in the bad old days. My e-mail address has been out there for ten years, and I get maybe ten spam messages a week. (Or is it five a day? It really doesn't matter!) If posters want timely answers, on a moderated forum, they need to give e-mail addresses. Bobby On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:18:03 -0500, Helen Read <readhpr at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/29/2011 7:51 AM, JCW wrote: >> It appears that one's full e-mail address is exposed to the Internet >> whenever one posts to this group because it is a 'Google front end' >> for a Usenet group. (Oddly, Google gives me a warning to this effect >> when I try to post a REPLY to an existing message, but NOT when I >> start a new thread.) There's a nice discussion of this issue at >> "Discussion>Google Groups Basics>security when using usenet groups" >> that recommends, in particular, using disposable e-mail addresses (not >> so easy when you already have a Google account). Yet I see a lot of >> people using what are apparently real e-mail addresses (masked by >> Google, of course) on this group. >> >> So my question is this: How have you folks solved this problem (if >> indeed there is one) and avoided spammers? -- JCW > > I access this group via Usenet, using a real news server and news reader > (not the web based Google Groups), because for me it's way more > convenient. I have been a Usenet denizen since 1993, and have always > posted under my real e-mail address so that people can reply directly to > me if they like. There's nothing more annoying than replying to sender > only to have the e-mail bounce because of a fake address. > > In the early days, there was some spam coming in as a result of spammers > harvesting addresses from Usenet, but it was never a huge problem. > Spammers now have so many other sources of e-mail addresses that having > my e-mail address out there on Usenet doesn't matter. And any decent > e-mail provider nowadays filters out e-mail spam, and I see little to no > spam making it through to my Inbox. > > Really it's a non-issue, and my own belief is that people should post > under a valid e-mail address so that others can reply directly to the > sender. > -- DrMajorBob at yahoo.com