From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DRUGS_ERECTILE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f49c8f164340c377 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsserver.news.garr.it!newsserver.cilea.it!not-for-mail From: Colin Paul Gloster Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Current status of Ada? Date: 18 Sep 2007 16:16:38 GMT Organization: CILEA Message-ID: References: <1187726191.464593.16480@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> <1187850312.375316.57440@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1190010925.023659.153570@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.iet.unipi.it X-Trace: newsserver.cilea.it 1190132198 3407 131.114.52.167 (18 Sep 2007 16:16:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cilea.it NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Sep 2007 16:16:38 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2018 Date: 2007-09-18T16:16:38+00:00 List-Id: On 2007-09-17, Lou wrote: |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"This is my very first day on this newsgroup, [..] | | | |[..]" | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Welcome. |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"4. I'm rather hesitant to make this post, as it appears that it is | |going to expose my e-mail address to the whole world. If this is not | |the case it needs to be made clear. If it is the case that needs to be | |fixed and the fix made clear." | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| That email address has been exposed. You could have followed advice from WWW.FAQs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/munging-address/ or simply not have bothered to provide a real email address in the newsgroup post. Now it is too late. You could try to cancel the newsgroup post but many newsservers will not allow you to cancel. However no matter what you do, that email address will probably be sent a lot of unwanted emails while it still exists as you have exposed it to Usenet. E.g. a spare email address which appears nowhere on the publicly accessible Internet (except for newsgroup archives (though the only news:comp.lang.ada archives on the Internet do not expose email addresses)) which I disclosed in only two newsgroup posts ever (both in 2002) still receives unwanted emails. A summary of some of the emails received by that email address in early September 2007 is: "Score From Subject Date Actions 9.67 | "Jody Katz"