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Until the last year, I've never had a real problem with spam. Now it's getting ridiculous and has forced me to shut down long-standing email accounts. I can't link any of those definitively to techwr-l (and am *not* blaming the list for the problem. I wasn't careful with those addresses).
Since then, I experimented with dummy accounts (the good thing about managing my own email domain). Of course, there *is* always the possibility that the actual owners of my email service are selling the list, but that doesn't explain why some of my other domain accounts *never* get any spam while this one does (not much...but enough). Those accounts are far older than this one, too. And no spam started coming through here until after I resubscribed to techwr-l.
No other email list I'm on leaves a "public" trace (most are lyris, which requires you to join a list to read the archives, and that is a bit much work for spammer, methinks).
I know the usenet mirror is a good resource, but I'm wondering if there's not something that will sanitize our addresses before sending to the mirror (kinda forces everything to go through the list, though. that might not be a good thing). Also, shutting it down might force more traffic to raycomm.com, which may drive up costs. However, since the archives are mirrored there, is the usenet group necessary?
Just my 2 cents - and you can keep the change.
Jeff--- Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
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>--- Dick Margulis <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> wrote:
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>> Jeff Hanvey <jeff -at- jewahe -dot- net> wrote:
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>> >I'm beginning to wonder if we should axe the usenet portion of this group. Eric?
>> >
>> No! No! A thousand times No! (IMHO, anyway)
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>I don't know if that's fair. I've noticed a tremendous upswing in the amount of spam
>on a couple of my accounts; spam has actually been on the rise for a year now, I
>think. BUT it has increased far less on the account I use for TECHWR-L than it has
>on a couple of fairly dorman email addresses I have. For a variety of reasons, this
>account has not seen nearly as large an increase as my other ones.
>
>YMMV, of course.
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