From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 05:50:50 CST
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> noted:
> Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> writes:
>
> > Ask people the #1 problem on USENET today and I know what they'll say.
> I see maybe one piece of spam in newsgroups I read per two or three weeks.
> It's well below the noise threshold.
I think the problem Brad meant was mail SPAM due to address
harvesting. That's a real problem, I see 2-3 pieces a day, and my mail
goes through both a fairly serious procmail process and then a pass
through a perl script of my own evil devising.
There's a limit to how tight you can get and not miss legitimate
mailresponses to posts.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me