On Mar 24, 6:27�pm, "cshenk" > wrote:
> "Sqwertz" wrote
>
> > I don't know why people even use Google for legitimate news when
> > there are free newsservers around for reading/posting to RFC.
>
> Most are now wisely 'munging' the address to something else. �Few spammers
> seem to bother (as of yet).

Hmm, then you must mean email spam. Maybe that's what spam folks are
moaning about, having their email addies harvested from Newsgroups,
because all those irrelevant posts have nothing to do with whether
anyone munges their address. I use my real address and get very,
very little spam, AOL has excellent spam filters... in fact if I
wanted I can make a setting so that I receive no spam at all, just
block all email unless the addie is in my address book. I get no more
email spam than I do junk snail mail at home, about 10-20 pieces a
week each.