uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

Sat Mar 31 04:47:51 UTC 2012

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