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Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Apr 2 09:33:08 2012

Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 09:32:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1203310851570.15547@joyce.lan>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>

> Spam sucks, but I've been posting to usenet with my real unmunged email
> address since 1981 and my inbox remains entirely usable. The idea that
> the way to avoid spam is to hide from spammers is so 1990s.

I've been posting to Usenet with my real *cell phone number* in my sig, not
to mention a dozen mailing lists.

You know how many unsolicited phone calls I've gotten in 29 years?

Maybe as many as a dozen.

Cheers,
-- jra
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