uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
Rich Kulawiec
rsk at gsp.org
Sat Mar 31 15:49:22 UTC 2012
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."
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