Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

[tallison@tacocat.net]

> Hallo!
>
> * Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote:
>>  [grey@despair.dmiyu.org]
>>     Guess what address is only used on the newsgroups.
>
> So use a 'Reply-To:' with your 'used and read' email address. Spammers
> usually get only the 'XOver', which only has the From: in it, so they
> won't see your Reply-To: Email.
>

You're kidding right?

Everything that is a mail format:

(approximately)
/[\w\.\-\_]+\@[\w\.\-\_]+\.\w{3}/

is harvested from email and used for spam address.