At 3:02 PM -0500 01/16/00, D. Kirkpatrick wrote:
>I set up a web-based address for responses and questions to my FAQ
>[...] I find that when I access that account, it can have 90 or
>more messages that are nothing more than SPAM.
It continues to amaze me that some of us get so much more spam from
posting FAQs. I suppose if someone were to conduct a survey of FAQ
posters, perhaps we could get an answer, but I don't have any reason
to need to know other than curiosity. My total spam volume is much
less than what DMK reports for his FAQ address alone, and I've seen
even higher figures in the past.
Perhaps some spammers target only certain Usenet hierarchies, and
perhaps the misc.* hierarchy (where I post) isn't targeted much.
Perhaps some of our ISPs have much better spam filters than others.
Otherwise I can't guess the reason. I post biweekly and the whole
thing is on faqs.org and every other Usenet FAQ archive. What's the
difference? I don't know.
Edward Reid
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