[sdiy] I remember my hesitation at using Usenet groups: SPAM

[Florian E. Teply]

Scott Gravenhorst schrieb:
> "anthony" <aankrom at bluemarble.net> wrote:
>> Well I was using google news groups, but I think I'll use trn if there's a 
>> version of it for Windows XP. The last time I used Usenet it was from one of 
>> my old Linux (Red Hat 6.1) machines.
>>
>>
>>> Give your news reader a fake email address for newsgroup posting, 
>>> something obvious like
>>> nospam at nowhere.com and then pick up your answer by going into the group 
>>> instead of
>>> expecting an answer by email.  If you do that, you will get zero spam from 
>>> that source.
>> Is there a way to do that with the google newsgroups?
>>
>>
>> AA
> 
> I don't know because I've used Google newsgroups only for reading.  See what your posting
> options are, if you can put a fake one in, I would do that.  
> 
> I've been using a copy of Free Agent I've had for many years which still works under XP...
>  Because I use it only for reading and posting to USENET and never for email, I can afford
> to put in a fake email address and leave it that way.  I don't know if Free Agent is still
> available...
> 
> 

Another good option (at least IMHO) would be an account at cnntp.org, 
which i myself use for usenet access. It's free, and on top of that 
you'll get another email address for posting to usenet. They do highly 
sophisticated filtering on that dresss and then forward the good stuff 
to your original email Adress. Haven't had a single spam mail on my 
(dedicated) usenet adress for nearly two years now, so it's working 
extremely well...

I am by no means connected to cnntp.org apart from happily using their 
service.

HTH
Florian