Maureen Leblanc <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>A subscriber has asked me if it's ok to post to hwy61-l, a list gatewayed
>to/fom usenet, using his address with "nospam inserted after the @ sign.
>(We've been getting a lot of junk in email lately -- from people who're
>obviously getting our names from usenet's rec.music.dylan.

I am a subscriber to one list that is gatewayed to Usenet. Because of this
problem I no longer post to that list, and haven't for a couple months. Of
the lists that I own, none have or will have a gateway to Usenet until this
problem is corrected, if ever. I'd suggest breaking the gateway between the
two.

I also seriously question the effectiveness of putting nospam in the
address. Any programmer with any intelligence can design a program to look
for nospam or no.spam and remove it.

Also some of the spam is manually sent. These people can take the address
from anywhere in the message and reconstruct it.

Don.