> > > Using my "handle" for now, until I figure how you people get away > > > with letting your names and email addresses hang out for SPAM > > > harvesting... > > > > Dunno -- my spam generates from another source, not the newsgroups. > > > > singhals@erols.com > > Newsgroups are generally not the source of spam. Wrong! Newsgroups are one of the major means of harvesting email addresses. > Open email > addresses within website ARE a problem. There are many web crawlers > that harvest these URLs and guess who gets swamped. You can reduce > the problem by using NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW commands in META TAGS and by > using the ASCII equivalents for your URL to hide it from the > crawlers. > > <aepalmer@a-znet.com> Spammers pay big money for the specialized software they use to harvest addresses and send millions of spam email/day, but they make good money also because there are enough suckers out there to fall for the advertising pitches. Bob