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Jim PKP wrote:
> In article <bg84du$2uv$>,
> says...
>
>>For some reason I'm unable to post messages to this group. I did a test
>>post earlyer and someone sent me a mail to say it was on. Yet I am unable
>>to see it.
>>
>>Could some kind person send me a mail to and let me
>>know what subject title post is above and below this (if it gets on).
>>
>>Thanks - Keith
>>
>
>
> Keith,
>
> If you are having problems reading messages on a newsgroup, it'll be
> your news server usually rather than your software. News servers store
> messages from newsgroups and some of them add new posts faster than
> others. It looks like you're using btinternet, which I've heard is bad
> for news. Try www.newsreaders.com for other (free) news servers.
> And don't put your e-mail address on a ng post....!
>

Why is that? All my posts have my e-mail address in it, and it's usually
best to have a valid e-mail address in the "from" part of your message,
as well. If you worried about spam, it's better to work with multiple
addresses or use a spam filter.


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Nicolai P. Zwar wrote:
>> And don't put your e-mail address on a ng post....!
>>
>
> Why is that? All my posts have my e-mail address in it, and it's usually
> best to have a valid e-mail address in the "from" part of your message,
> as well. If you worried about spam, it's better to work with multiple
> addresses or use a spam filter.

I used to have a disposable email address in my reply field which would
forward mail to my real address. What would happen is that eventually
(and it never took long) I would be receiving several microsoft update
email viruses each day. Evenutally I would change to another disposable
address and the cycle would repeat. Now I use a nonvalid email address
in the headers and my contact details at the bottom of the post without
specifying an '@' symbol so that the software that spammers use to pick
up addresses doesn't detect it (and it also is a disposable address).

regards,
Ben

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Ben wrote:
> Nicolai P. Zwar wrote:
>
>>> And don't put your e-mail address on a ng post....!
>>>
>>
>> Why is that? All my posts have my e-mail address in it, and it's
>> usually best to have a valid e-mail address in the "from" part of your
>> message, as well. If you worried about spam, it's better to work with
>> multiple addresses or use a spam filter.
>
>
> I used to have a disposable email address in my reply field which would
> forward mail to my real address. What would happen is that eventually
> (and it never took long) I would be receiving several microsoft update
> email viruses each day. Evenutally I would change to another disposable
> address and the cycle would repeat. Now I use a nonvalid email address
> in the headers and my contact details at the bottom of the post without
> specifying an '@' symbol so that the software that spammers use to pick
> up addresses doesn't detect it (and it also is a disposable address).

By now, I have used for years on the Usenet, and
probably every spambot in this world has harvested it at one time or
another. But hey, that's my "most public" e-mail address, everybody's
able to have it. But I also have other e-mail addresses out there for
private e-mail, work, or other things. Normally, one can have as many
e-mail addresses as one wants these days, so that's not really a
problem. I used to use invalid e-mail addresses in the "from" field,
too, but I'm not nuts about this type of anti-spam protection for
various reasons.

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Nicolai Zwar
http://www.nicolaizwar.com
(we're late, we know, and we're still closed)

Jim PKP wrote:
> In article <>, says...
>
>
>>Why is that?
>
>
>
> To avoid spam.

Yeah, I know. Which is why I said that "if you worried about spam, it's
better to work with multiple addresses or use a spam filter". Most
people still use their e-mail address (well, one of their e-mail
addresses) in the Usenet, and that's generally preferable to a fake or
broken address in my opinion.
--
Nicolai Zwar
http://www.nicolaizwar.com
(we're late, we know, and we're still closed)