Re: World Naked Bike Ride London 14.6.08

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:29, Marc wrote:

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... only the very naive or
very new would use unmunged address on usenet.

Err, see headers.

Naive, I accept. But not "very naive". And I don't think I'm "very
new" to Usenet, although certainly nowhere near as long-serving as
many other urners.

As regards publishing one's email in clear, to avoid torrents of
consequent spam, simply ensure that one's mailservers operate a
reasonable anti-spam scheme. Those I use do, and my spam levels are
minimal.

If more customers complained to ISPs who fail to implement FREEly
available and extremely effective anti-spam schemes, then perhaps spam
would finally decline - although it will never disappear.

.

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