[Coco] Hello All

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

The reason that I am suggesting only a one way link is that we can make sure
that our e-mail addresses are not included. Those fools that do post to the
UseNet *"Bit.Listserv.CoCo"* NewsGroup will be advisied that they should use
either Yahoo or MaltMedia facilities for posting.

Kenneth Schunk wrote:
> Stephen:
>
> The main problem I see with posting from the group to usenet that is
> the presence of my e-mail address in anything I post. Once upon a time
> it was fine to post to usenet with a real e-mail address, but these
> days any address I use that is posted there quickly turns into a spam
> collector. I can use my real address here knowing that it's unlikely to
> be harvested by a robot someplace and added to a spam list.
>
> Ken
>
> And I must say that it's unlikely that Windows XP service pack whatever
> will change the way I use the internet, since I'm using Mac OS-X. Then
> again it might - perhaps it will stop some of the script kiddie
> attempts on my firewall!

This group will not be affected as much as some others. SP2 turns on the
*most* restrictive settings by default. This group has flamed people for
using HTML in e-mail. Now MS will do the flaming.


With the firewalls on by default, hopefully people will give up trying to
get past them so you may see a reduction.

I cannot find quickly the document that suggested to me that everyone will
be affected. I will have to look some more.
-- 
Stephen H. Fischer <sfischer1 at mindspring.com>