Of course, bad guys can also grep in news.answers. Here "news.answers"
is no different from the other groups as far as UCE senders are concerned.
However, you raised an interesting question here. Many people (especially
those posting in "news.admin.net-abuse.xxx" hierarchy) have started posting
with modified addresses so human beings with intelligence can resolve them
while programs/machines cannot, like
tcyang@netcom.NOSPAM.com
tc_removethispart_yang@netcom.com
tcyang@netcom.com*
The question is what happens when we do use this kind of modified addresses
when posting to "news.answers".
Several months ago when Chris Lewis posted a question about FAQ cancellation
by rogue people, I somehow got involved with him for some kind of argument
in this FAQ maintainer mailing list (I am very sorry for that), and others
told him it belonged to the net abuse category, not about FAQ Maintainer
mailing list.
However, at that time we did encounter a technical problem about FAQ
postings in news.answers, which could render "news.answers" useless, and
at that time I simply provided my suggestion for the problem to the
"news.answers" moderation team member since I was leaving for a trip
to Canada. This time the question about modified addresses could open
up the Pandora's box again.
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Forwarded message:
> Date: 24 Jan 97 20:35:13 -0800
> Message-Id: <AF0ECD8C-ABCC@204.122.16.186>
> From: "Nick Zitzmann" <nickzman@eskimo.com>
> Subject: Junk Mail
>
> Any other FAQ maintainers out there getting a lot of junk mail? I am, and I
> suspect that the junk mailers are scanning through news.answers or some
> other such groups, getting lots of E-Mail addresses, and then using them.
>
> For normal posts, I had to change my From: address in hopes of blocking out
> some of the stuff. However, I still get lots of junk mail, and I'm
> wondering if they're just getting my E-Mail address from the FAQ and then
> mailing me.
>
> So, I'm wondering if there's a way to use a bad E-Mail address to post the
> FAQ in order to defeat some of these mass mailing programs...
Tung-chiang Yang tcyang@netcom.com
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