Subj : Newsgroups as "echos"
To   : GARY GILMORE
From : FOXY FERGUSON
Date : Sat Jul 28 2001 01:10 am

GG> Of course, there's the other bonus of people on the Fidonet
GG> side, who don't understand that ANY email address posted in
GG> a newsgroup (which it will be once the Fidonet-side message
GG> hits the Internet-side) will be added to the already massive
GG> lists of email addresses that the spammers sell to each
GG> other.  Yippie! <frown>

Once my email address got included in the weekly ROUTELST I have
been saily subjected to dozens of spam I-net msgs trying to sell
me penis enlargement, or get me to visit some kiddy porn web
site, or tell me that I've won some great Florida get-away. Ha!
And the ones I dislike the most are the ones that immediately
inform my system it must download and install some program so I
can read this Oriental shit. Or which reconfigure my system cause
me to hit =their= web page instead of the one *I* want to.

GG> If you'd like to borrow my soapbox, feel free.  <laugh>

Got my own, thanks, Gary...
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