"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 21:11:45 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> On 7/4/2014 2:51 PM, sf wrote:
>> > On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 13:06:51 -1000, dsi1
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Boy, this is confusing... so what you're saying is that posters like
>> >> you
>> >> should use gmail addresses? How does that work?
>> >
>> > Easy. You can forward your gmail to what you use as your regular
>> > email address. If an address shifting stalker or spammer starts to
>> > bother you, just untick the box to forward email to your main address.
>> >
>>
>> That seems quite involved.
>
> Nothing hard about it. It's a box to check or uncheck with a
> forwarding address. Setting up your newsreader to post to usenet is
> harder than that.
>
>> What I like to do is not give out any address
>> on Usenet. I thought that's what everybody did. Perhaps I'm paranoid?
>
> Decent ISPs prescreen for spam these days, so people aren't as careful
> as they used to be.

Mine massively misses the mark. Much of what is stuck in the spam folder is
not spam at all and much of the real spam still comes through.