At 04:08 PM +0100 11/20/01, Nick Boalch wrote:
>Personally I don't like it. I don't like it for several reasons.
>Firstly
>it makes it very difficult for people to reply to your messages.
The way I've heard it explained is -- most harvesters use the NNTP
overview command (I forget the code), which only retrieves certain
headers. That way they can harvest cheaply; downloading every article
to scan the body and the remaining headers for addresses is too
expensive for a spammer.
And the overview command doesn't send the Reply-To header.
So you can add .invalid or .spamsucks to your email address in the From
header and keep your Reply-To with your unmunged address. People can
still reply easily to the posting -- in fact, the naive won't even
notice -- but the spammers don't see the real address from newsgroup
postings.
Doesn't help with the web pages of course.
Haven't done it myself but it's worth considering.
Edward Reid
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