"Chris Bacon" wrote in message
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David W.E. Roberts wrote:
I use a special email address ' for Usenet postings
because bad people harvest email addresses from newsgroup postings and
then
sell them to spammers.

In just over year, I bet I've had about 300 "spam" e-mails, most of
which (IMO) have come from non-Usenet sources. There are only about
a hundred people on usenet, anyway, so it's not a prime resource
for e-mail address "harvesting".

I think you are a little short on the number of people using the internet,
if you added about 10 '0's to your estimate it would be a little closer.

Alan