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NG Policies
"Frank" wrote in message
Twayne wrote:
"Jason Carlton" wrote in message
I'm relatively new to this NG (lurked in the past, of course), so
forgive my stupid question here. But is this NG moderated at all? I
don't see a lot of spam, which is rare for a NG, so I thought maybe
it was.
I messed up and made a few posts under my "other" Google account,
which has my active work email address attached. I'm hoping to
contact a mod and have him to correct those posts so that my
unimportant Gmail address will show, instead (and hopefully prevent
too many spammers from picking up the active address).
If there is a mod for this NG, how can I contact him/her?
TIA,
Jason
No. Usenet groups are not moderated for the most part. You're
lucky if you're not seeing spam; I do.
Your e-mail address is also now stored on Google and several other
places that crawl the newsgroups in order to provide lookup services
for posts on the groups. It has also been scraped from the
newsgroup by several spam bots who will have already added it to
their spam lists. So in general, it's too late; it's already in the
hands of many around the world.
On newsgroups, many people use phony email addresses that have
been set aside specifically for this purpose in order to avoid the
spam. is one, there are many others if you keep
your eyes open and look for them. Do NOT just make up a name: if
it's not already in use, it might be in use in the future so you
could be screwing someone before they even get started. The address
above is even actually pointed out in an RFC.
HTH,
Twayne`
I get no spam with my munged address. Former dial up isp, I got 50
spams a day.
Hmm, maybe I misunderstood something: I meant spam coming into this
newsgroup.
Twayne
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