Re: Thoughts and suggestions for our project website

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Blinky the Shark wrote:

rf wrote:
...
You are aware that messages to the test groups expire very quickly,
about 10 minutes or so. A harverster would have to be on the job
continuously to notice your post.

Depends on the server. Right now posts available in alt.test (and
not crossposted to any non-test groups) at news.individual.net, my
primary feed, go back at least two months.

Is there a possibility that the spambots ignore test groups? How many
n00bs post their real addresses there? (Just a thought... n00bs seem to
post their test messages everywhere else, though.)

Note that - since snipped - I said that I wasn't addressing whether or not
test groups were harvested. Only that retention wasn't necessarily as
short as claimed.

As for the question, that can go both ways. Test groups probably wouldn't
be very fertile for harvesting because not only, as you say, would they
tend to contain fewer real addresses, since the unclued aren't posting
there and because the even the ones who might be posting with real
addresses probably aren't as spam naive as the huddled masses in other
groups. On the other hand, it doesn't cost spammers any more to scrape
test groups as well as nontest groups, so infertility probably wouldn't
much matter to them.


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