usenet

[babuniki]

I need some advice about the use of SG addresses in the usenet and/or googlegroups.

Until recently my SG addresses in the usenet were left untouched by spammers. Now every new SG address I create is soon spambotted and becomes useless for potential PMs.

What do you suggest me to do? Keep changing my SP addresses? Or - for older posts - keep repairing the SP address by setting up the number every time? Or any other workaround ...

BabuNiki

[lwc]

If you use the old usenet, you might as well use the old way of mentioning addresses: myaddress@CUTTHISFORSPAM.myhost.com

Humans (and newbies don't usually write in usenet anymore) should be smart enough to cut what's needed to be cut when they write to you.

[babuniki]

If you use the old usenet, you might as well use the old way of mentioning addresses: myaddress@CUTTHISFORSPAM.myhost.com

One indispensable condition for an address in the 'old' usenet is that it should be valid, i. e. it should not bounce like your example would do.

BabuNiki

[josh]

If you have a web page, you could put that recently released SGMailto javascript on it, and then put a web link in your usenet posts that takes folks to the page with the sg mailto -- a little unconventional, but it would probably work.

[vellire]

One indispensable condition for an address in the 'old' usenet is that it should be valid, i. e. it should not bounce like your example would do.

BabuNiki

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but I think you can still handle this with regular spamgourmet addressing. Say you want email to "myusenet~to~myhandle@recursor.net" - you could list it as "NOSPAMmyusenet~to~myhande@recursor.net" and set the NOSPAMmyusenet address to 0 remaining right away. Human emailers should know to remove NOSPAM, but the address is actually valid either way.