Group: news.software.readers
From: Oliver Cromm
Date: Monday, July 30, 2007 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: USENET archive(s) other than Google?

On 30 Jul 2007 22:25:54 GMT, Peter J Ross wrote:

> In on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:15:11 -0400, Oliver
> Cromm wrote:
>
>> * Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>
>>> Try it with the address I fly: @ .
>>
>> That address is likely to be used by others, too, and in a German news
>> group, I would score you down for it. There, a good proportion of the
>> readers would tell you that with a nickname and no working e-mail
>> address, you obviously refuse to be held accountable for what you say on
>> Usenet and it isn't worthwhile answering you.
>
> How would the .de people feel about my use of my real name, an
> unreplyable From: line, and a Reply-To: address that I read daily?
>
> I suspect that they'd still find something to complain about.

Not the reasonable ones (like me ;-)), but of course there are others.
For example, my address at landed me in quite some spam
boxes, even more when mailing.

--
Oliver C.