On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:31:01 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 16 > Jun 2006 14:58:53 -0400: > >> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:44:34 -0700, Travis wrote: >> >>>> So if I were to abandon that address, would Pan be able to use some >>>> other in some way?? Or would I have to find another newsfeed provider?? >>> >>> I have to use my userId and password to access my news server and I put >>> that info in the "News Servers" and I put an invalid address in "Posting >>> Profiles" and it works and I don't get any spam from my newsgroup posts. >> >> Hmmm .... And that works?? IOW, Pan requires *something*, but it doesn't >> have to be valid? Hmmm ... I suppose I could then put a transparently >> munged one in my .sig .... > > Yes. The only newsgroups I use a valid address on are the gmane ones, > which are actually mailing lists. Everything else I use something like > cox.reply2group.net.please as the domain name, with instructions for > unmunging it, of course. > > Note that when choosing a munged address, you want two things. First, > make sure it's not your real domain -- munge the domain not just the > username portion. If you use your normal domain, you are just causing > them to get more spam they have to process, whether it's for a valid > address or not. > > Second, make sure it's not a valid domain at all, so you aren't causing > someone else to get spam. reply2group.net might be such a valid domain, > thus the "please" at the end. "please" isn't a valid TLD (top level > domain), so any direct spammer harvesting isn't going to end up hurting > whoever might have reply2group.net as their domain.
Actually, I was thinking of making one like "<Beartooth (at) adelphia.net>," only with my real address (I.e., the one I mostly use) instead of the adelphia.net one. Bad idea?? > Here, I actually use a dedicated address for my (non-gmane) news address > as well. [...] What is a dedicated address when it's at home?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Wordcrafty Squirreler FC5; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.14.2.91; Privoxy 3.0.3; CXO 5.0.1 Dillo 0.8.5, Opera 8.54, Firefox 1.5, Galeon 2.0.1 Remember I have little idea what I am talking about. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
