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Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Sat Mar 31 00:48:25 2012

Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:47:51 -0700
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbUdnEjEcpwHUMYmt0V4u-kju2Ph_tJGRBUoXRBc2FKwqg@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 30/03/12 7:48 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
> E-mail address harvesters (where you get bombarded with direct-emailed
> crap if you dare post a message to USENET).

I've been posting with a real gmail address for years, and google does 
an amazing job with filtering out the resulting spam, with very few 
false positives (mostly badly designed marketing email from companies 
I've opted n to receive marketing email from, and whose spam-trapped 
messages are no real loss).

jc




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