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Oliver Much <uzs7ci@uni-bonn.de> writes:
>> That advice seems to be based on a wrong assumption that spiders /
>> harvesters don't see the Reply-To: field in postings to lists: even
>> searching groups in Google (and going to "Original Format") reveals
>> all headers... 
>
> It's based on the assumption that spammers only collect the XOVER
> information, which usually doesn't contain the Reply-To:. And if
> you really believe spammers would let a literate monkey collect
> adresses via Google manually, you wouldn't munge your From: and
> so potentially waste bandwidth and postmaster worktime nor 
> hiding cowardly your realname in an extended header.

Why "collect manually"?  A simple spider can do that.
Why "hiding cowardly"?  Anyone can see it...

Anyway, this is really getting OT -- my apologies for wasting the
bandwidth.  No more postings from me in this thread.

        Adam
-- 
Name and address in X-Real...