| Re: alternative to fwrite? [message #183017 is a reply to message #183013] |
Thu, 03 October 2013 00:37   |
Peter H. Coffin
Messages: 245
Registered: September 2010
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On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:00:01 -0400, Twayne wrote:
> On 2013-10-02 4:37 PM, Scott Johnson wrote:
>> On 10/2/2013 11:58 AM, Twayne wrote:
>>> On 2013-10-02 10:01 AM, Evan Platt wrote:
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>> Or....
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>> Just use a valid e-mail just for the purpose of NG and check it only if
>> you are expecting a reply from someone there.
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> OK or some, dangerous for others as bots regularly probe & scan
> newsgroups, mining for e-mails to scrape up.
Unless it got MORE popular than two years ago, that is not the case.
Email addresses posted on websites, even as "userpart at example.com"
started receiving spam in less than a week. Email addresses posted to
newsgroups alone took an average of five weeks to start receiving spam,
and confined to addresses posting to very popular alt.* groups. Big
8-only didn't get picked up at all until we shut down the experiment
after three months.
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79. If my doomsday device happens to come with a reverse switch, as
soon as it has been employed it will be melted down and made into
limited-edition commemorative coins.
--Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord
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