Denys writes:
> If you notice at the beginning of this message, I have inserted a command
> X-no-Archive.  This prevents my messages from being posted to Usenet.

This does absolutely nothing to prevent your messages from being "posted
to Usenet".  The list->Usenet gateway clearly ignores this (as it should)
since comp.sys.hp.mpe is full of denys postings at the moment.

What it does do is *ask* the archiving services like AltaVista and
DejaNews to please not permanently archive the message.  There is no
guarantee that everyone is honoring this request.

Either way it won't do anything to eliminate spam from people who extract
e-mail addresses from news spools/feeds.  X-no-Archive is probably useful
as a privacy tool, but not very much as an anti-spam technique.

I question whether the field will even work when it is clearly in the
body of the message and not the header, since we see it in Denys's
messages.  It looks like it's supposed to be an RFC822 header.  I've
not looked into how it's supposed to work though.

If you want to avoid spam, then don't post to usenet, and don't have
your e-mail address on any web pages.  You can take the "nospam" route
and alter your return address, but if you ever want to ask for help
and actually expect people to answer you then I don't recommend this.
I answer a lot more postings privately than publicly these days, but
I generally won't bother to if I'm going to have to manually edit
the damn return address before it won't bounce.

G.