> It may be that anti-spam addresses are getting in the way, but wouldn't
> first-time posters be somewhat more likely that long-timers to *not* have
> anti-spam addresses?
I have a feeling there's a sort of inverted U-shaped curve. People who
are new to USENET probably don't have anti-spam addresses. People who've
been using the net for a week or so are likely to have gotten fed up with
spam and adopted anti-spam addresses (since it's an idea that is getting a
lot of publicity these days) - but it seems that after a while, quite a
few people decide that the prevention is worse than the disease, because
anti-spam addresses aren't always very popular, and can make life a pain
for bona fide would-be repliers (I quite often reply to an article by
email, forget to demunge the address, and can't be bothered to field the
resulting bounce and re-send) so they go back to posting with plain
addresses, and maybe hide behind an ISP who tries to do bulk blocking of
spam (I see pobox.com, the mail-forwarding people, are now offering spam
blocks as an option on all their accounts).
Just my thoughts... ;-)
p.