X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,9c5db9e6be40caff X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-12 07:21:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!skynet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p3e9929ae.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail From: Tilman Ahr Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: OT: Spamfighting Date: 12 Feb 2001 15:52:28 +0100 Organization: RiotCo, ltd. Lines: 35 Sender: tilman@Rudeboy.rioteer.subdomain.de Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p3e9929ae.dip.t-dialin.net (62.153.41.174) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 981990970 20694354 62.153.41.174 (16 [35725]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4383 Nate / DAC writes: > Well dang it... at least the ability to hide my Email address would be > nice, Well, tanstaafl, as you're probably aware ;-) But that isn't really an issue IMHO... I, for one just use a freemailer-account with fair spamfiltering that I don't check really often for news. Gets me down to just a few spam-mail per week - an amount I can live with. > and there is at least one binaries group that I watch One could always get those from a different server, of course... > I'm constantly waiting for Pine to finish "formatting scrolltext" or > being "[Busy ]" every time the news server is queried (this is an > indication to me that it's waiting for the server to reply... Pine? The *nix mailreader? Most people I know seem to agree that it sucks badly for news - but if you don't have a choice... I always recommend Xemacs/gnus, though that's probably a matter of taste... > what the hell is scrolltext doing in my Email program anyways?? That > belongs in C64 demos, not application software :) ACK. Tilman -- ,--------------------------------------------------------. |Tilman Ahr | Email: rioteer@gmx.net | | | tilman.ahr@student.hu-berlin.de | `--------------------------PGP-Key available by request--�