From: Simon Cozens <simon@...>
Date: 2003-01-01T21:45:22+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: newsgroup GW

Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:
> That's true, but these are not the most efficient avenues for
> harvesting.  It is appropriate to worry first about the Usenet angle.

This seemed plausable, but I did a survey of my incoming spam over the
past few days. 15 came directed to addresses that have only been used on
web pages, 35 to addresses I use for mailing list posts, and 3 to the
address I post to Usenet as. So I think the "Usenet is an evil harvesting
ground" meme is just a myth. It certainly used to be true, but I doubt it
is at the moment.

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