In article <20020306121851.A3940@cleon.cc.gatech.edu>, Byron A Jeff writes: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:29:40PM +0000, Tom Crane wrote: > The real problem with usenet gateways is that the spambots can have a field > day with E-mail addresses. I'm currently getting two to three dozen pieces > of SPAM personally addressed to me. Agreed but Madis Kaal, has helpfully munged the Email addresses in the headers of PICLIST messages passing through his gateway. FYI here is the header of your message as it appeared at my site, X-NEWS: mail.rhbnc.ac.uk comp.arch.embedded.piclist: 32978 Path: mklab.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk!hagar!not-for-mail From: Byron A Jeff Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded.piclist Subject: Re: pic news groups Date: 6 Mar 2002 19:15:17 +0200 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <20020306121851.A3940@cleon.cc.gatech.edu> Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: hagar.nomad.ee 1015434925 2855 127.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2002 17:15:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: mast@nomad.ee NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Mar 2002 17:15:25 GMT To: PICLIST@MITVMA.Delete.MIT.EDU X-gateway-software: newspipe 1.2; Copyright (c) Nomad Systems 1999,2001 Xref: mklab.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk comp.arch.embedded.piclist:32978 > I read mail on a Solaris box. My solution is to use a combination of procmail > mail filtering and the mutt mail reader. procmail shunts all my PICLIST mail > off to a separate folder. mutt has threading and thread deletion just like > trn, my news reader. So usually I can get through a whole day's worth of > PICLIST mail in 20-30 minutes without any clutter whatsoever. Agreed, procmail is good and I use it elsewhere system but Usenet is nicer since it threads, autoexpires etc. Regards. Tom -- Tom Crane, Dept. Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England. Email: uhap023@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk SPAN: 19.875 Fax: +44 (0) 1784 472794 -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu