Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:07:53 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2010-06-28 19:19, Malcolm wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:10:15 +0200
> > Per Jessen <> wrote:
>
>
> > Hi
> > The format is <openSUSE forum login name>@<no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
> > so it's munged, this will then reference back to you actual account so
> > you don't show up as Guest on the web side.
>
> And what is the expected format for people using only nntp without a
> forum name? I see that some, like Per, use their openSUSE addresses. To
> me, it feels strange seeing so many people using aliases instead of real
> (or apparently real) names.

A legal e-mail address at the minimum.  Some people use pseudonyms, some 
use real names, some use fake e-mail addresses, some use real ones.

It's typical to not use a real e-mail address because spammers tend to 
harvest e-mail addresses from newsgroups.  Even gmane munges e-mail 
addresses - even in the message body text.

> Traditionally, on NNTP you could fake an address like "real like name"
> <http://objects.povworld.org/links10.html@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, which 
> served to deter spam.

Do you see the quoted address here as an address at public.gmane.org (the 
user portion is name-BxgFnWKfcnbUF6G2QusZNg ) - I'm not sure what your 
original was (or if that was the original), but I know gmane munges it.  
I see myself on gmane as hendersj-[random character string] at 
public.gmane.org instead of my gmail.com e-mail address.

Jim

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