Re: prisoner of Gestapo

On Fri, 30 May 2008 15:01:18 +0100, Hugh Watkins
<hugh.watkins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

petert wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2008 14:42:26 +0100, Hugh Watkins
<hugh.watkins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jill wrote:
snip it was still not a sensible idea to put them up without a spamtrap
in.
Most people do not realise what a difference newsgroup harvesting is like.
They are more used to protected forums.
So its likely that those email addresses will become unuseable, and then
be dropped, which makes having them in the archive redundant.
my own honest email addresses reamin useable after many years in newsgroups

too much hysteria about spam

Hugh W

Hugh,

You seem to be missing the point. What Jill was saying was that people
shouldn't really post OTHER peoples email addresses within a usenet
message - they may not be happy with, or indeed, prpared for the
possible level of spam they may receive as a result. The fact that you
are happy with whatever level of spam you receive shouldn't be taken
as being indicative of other peoples thoughts on the matter.

READ THE THREAD

I have already answered this

I have indeed read the thread

And note that Jill wrote:

it was still not a sensible idea to put them up without a spamtrap

To which you replied:

my own honest email addresses reamin useable after many years in
newsgroups too much hysteria about spam.

It was your reply that I replied to where I said:

You seem to be missing the point. What Jill was saying was that people
shouldn't really post OTHER peoples email addresses within a usenet
message - they may not be happy with, or indeed, prpared for the
possible level of spam they may receive as a result. The fact that you
are happy with whatever level of spam you receive shouldn't be taken
as being indicative of other peoples thoughts on the matter.

I'm not sure exactly what you meant when you said you had already
replied - it's not in the thread above
--
Peter Thomas
Researching: Hone - Oxfordshire & Glamorgan; Samuel(s) - Swansea & Llanelli & Gower;
Thomas - Morriston & Clydach; Harris - Aberdare & Gloucester, Pope - Shropshire; Parker, Shropshire;
Broome - Shropshire.
"Reply to address is a spam trap - replies to the group please
.

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