From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-09-21T05:56:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Real emails on newsgroup version (was Re: POP3Filter)

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 04:47:26 +0900, Ben Giddings wrote:
> Why is it that those of us who use this as a mailing list, rather than a
> newsgroup, have our email addresses passed on to the newsgroups
> unchanged?  Is this a conscious design decision or a bug?
> 
> If it's a design decision, why???
> If it's a bug, can I get the source of the reflector thingy and fix it?

I believe that it's a design decision. The reality, at least for me, is that 
I get very little spam directed to *me*. I get very little spam from usenet. 
(I have a separate account I use for that, and while 100% of the mail 
received by it is spam, the volume is very low -- less than 50 a week.) I 
get a lot of spam mail and virus mail because of people who don't use 
properly secure email clients and because I have a domain that I do not 
control the MTA on, meaning that my account is also the "catch-all" account. 
I can change this, to be certain, but there are many reasons that I do not 
at this point.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.09.20
                                         * 16.53.52