Subj : Newsgroups as "echos" To : Andrea Santos From : mark lewis Date : Tue Jul 31 2001 02:50 am ->> reading a group or some is no problem... its writting in ->> them with a 'visible' address that's the problem... AS> Which leaves a bogus email account at Yahoo or Hotmail as the AS> alternatives. what's bogus about using a freebie throwaway account?? i've almost a dozen that i use in various places... most of them are spamtraps, though... spamtrap as in i use them at places i don't know to see if they do start sending spam... AS> Haven't done it because the days of free accounts, IMO, AS> are coming to an end. somehow, i don't really see that happening... yahoo, excite, netscape, hotmail, and any other site that offers free email addresses will always be around... )\/(ark * Origin: (1:3634/12) .