Biological filters enclosed!
Like the other guy said... never ever post your email, phone, etc...
Spammers use programs to "mine" newsgroups for that info. Then they spam!
SPAM! SPAM!! And your inbox becomes full of diet pills, pyramid schemes,
porno, and virus attachments. People who post their email either do it
because they are 1) niave and don't know better (been there and learned the
hard way), 2) have no choice because they are using a newsgroup service that
requires it, or 3) "encode" it so a person could figure out the real
address, but a spammer's software program could not.
Every news reader program I've used allows you to enter a bogus email
address as the "return address" on usenet posts.
E.Otter
certainly isn't a real email address)
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