Wirt says after Steve...

> It would only seem worse that if the requirement were that you always must
> post to the list from a verifiable address, all of those who add
> "nospam" to
> their addresses would be in even worse stead. Now, only
> legitimate, machine-
> verifiable addresses are being put onto the newsgroup, increasing
> the value of
> the newsgroup even more.

... guess what?  The spammers are on to that trick too.  Now the houses that
harvest these addresses are actually filtering for "nospam" (case
insensitive) in the address, and removing it - so even if you have this in
your REPLY-TO and FROM headers, you will more than likely hit a list.

The latest rage, it seems, is to intermix the nospam, skipping every other
letter or some other ramdom method, such as:

  Real address:      [log in to unmask]
  Antispam address:  [log in to unmask]

This should throw them off for a little while, I guess...

But I agree with Stan, for example - I was going to do this, but it's a real
pain to send one way to the list, and another way to clients and other
correspondents, and a REAL pain to reformat addresses to get rid of the
nospam.  I do reply, but I do grumble when I have to do it.

Oh well..

Happy 4th to the folks in the US!  Have a great holiday...

Joe