Dale, is this officially sanctioned? If not, how does everyone feel
about it? Personally, I'm not a great fan of it.

Josh

"Pfaff, John" wrote:
>
> You can go to groups.google.com and look at the group comp.arch.embedded.pic (BTW, there is also comp.arch.embedded.picbasic
> for anyone interested).  This group is simply a mirror of ALL messages sent to the PICList.  The address in the headers is
> modified so as not to be miner-friendly, but any addresses that show up in messages (in quoted replies, etc) show up as
> originally posted.
>
> jp
>
> Quentin wrote:
> >
> > A few weeks ago it was mentioned here that this list gets mirrored on
> > Usenet or some other newsgroup list. Now we know that that is a serious
> > mother lode for address mining. I avoid all newsgroups like a plaque
> > because of this. I haven't looked, but is there any protection in place?
> > Two thing came up in this discussion so far:
> > 1. There are an increase in SPAM to Piclisters, which I have noticed as
> > well.
> > 2. Spams come from places such as " .RU, .CN or unresolvable IP
> > addresses somewhere in RIPE or APNIC address space
> > (Europe or Asia)." (to quote Dale). I noticed that as well.
> >
> > So how about that newsgroup thing? I realy don't trust it.
> >
> > Q..
>
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