From: pack-news@rattus.net 
  
 Rebecca Ore  writes: 
  
 > In article , 
 >  Bruce Murphy  wrote: 
 > 
 > > > 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. 
 > 
 > Given that I had a gmail address that wasn't used in public get swamped 
 > because spammers were running dictionary attacks on anything that had 
 > ever been posted in front of an @ sign, I don't have any sympathy for 
 > people who want Usenet to be what it was in 1989. 
  
 I've never advocated pretending spamers don't exist -- it should be 
 fairly clear from my own address that I'm taking various steps against 
 them, but not to the point of making my address non-functional as it 
 stands. 
  
 I wasn't aware gmail had had this sort of problem. Have you found the 
 gmail problem to have subsided? I'd be surprised if the google folks 
 weren't actively seeking ways to keep it to a dull roar. 
  
 > And I'd like a news reader which would send authentication to the mail 
 > server I use, but like this news reader better than Hogwasher in other 
 > ways.  I could take the munge out of the current address and have this 
 > be directly repliable -- it's my third working verizon address -- but 
 > I'm curious to see if spammers are actively demunging addresses. 
  
 This is the benefit of using a newsreader that can be completely 
 customised. 
  
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