On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:48:58PM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: > E-mail address harvesters (where you get bombarded with direct-emailed > crap if you dare post a message to USENET).
Insignificant: email address harvesting activity, in toto, on Usenet, is tiny compared to that conducted elsewhere. (A few moments' thought will suggest why.) > The advantage 'forum sites' have is, you don't reveal your e-mail > address to the public when posting. That's a bug, not a feature. And "forum sites" lack the far more important features that I enumerated in another message in this thread. > And automated spam sending can be mitigated through the use of CAPTCHAs. Captchas have been quite, quite thoroughly beaten for some time. ---rsk p.s. Before anyone says "but *my* captchas appear to be working", let me suggest this exchange as guidance: "Londo, they could've killed me!" "Nonsense, you are not important enough to kill."