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 Russ Allbery  writes: 
  
 > Bruce Murphy  writes: 
 > > Russ Allbery  writes: 
 > 
 > >> Okay.  So you feel this way about everyone who posts to Usenet with an 
 > >> unrepliable address?  You must really dislike a lot of people. 
 > 
 > > Yep. Rude bastards the lot of them. 
 > 
 > Okay, fair enough.  I'm sympathetic but gave up on that fight a long time 
 > ago.  I have no argument with the position as long as it's consistent, 
 > though; I don't see any practical difference between what Guy's currently 
 > doing and the various munged addresses people use. 
  
 Frankly, increasing numbers of places offer something like tagged 
 email addresses, and once you /have/ set something like that up with a 
 specific USENET address, it's actually pretty easy to set up 
 extremely effective filters, since USENET replies will have a fairly 
 specific 
 form. 
  
 And for the rest, it's actually a very handy test-set for my work in 
 developing anti-spam solutions ;) 
  
 > >> Uh-huh.  Well, on that, I'm happy to let the audience draw their own 
 > >> conclusions. 
 > 
 > > Uh-oh invoking the peanut gallery. 
 > 
 > What can I say?  I like peanuts.  :) 
  
 *chuckle* 
  
 > Thanks for the information about RFC 822.  Given how many places weird 
 > addr-spec generations come up, that was a good detail to be aware of. 
  
 Well, I only had a fairly dim memory, so I thought I'd actually 
 check. I wasn't surprised that Guy's reading was wrong, but I did want 
 to find out precisely how. 
  
 B> 
  
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