Erik,

MS does have some sophisticated filters in place to keep the spam out now. MVPs have a method to alert the newsmaster of anything that slips through and it's quickly deleted. I don't put my real email address in, I use sendnospam@worldnet.att.net to eliminate spam, which also helps to prevent people from sending email replies and keeps the content in the ng. If a person wants my email address they can get it from my website and my sig there has a link to it.

The newsgroups are not the cesspool they once were.

>At least the noise here isn't as bad as the "..." crap you get in a public newsgroup, and being worried about spam (the mother of all evils). And if you look at the volume of the most active VFP newsgroups, they don't get 10% as much traffic as the UT does.