On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:15:19 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
Yes, using a non real address makes sense. But having the common name (user part?) posted as an alias looks strange to me.
We see that on the MLs quite frequently as well - I have noted several people who post with a nickname rather than a full name: DenverD, jdd, JB2, are a few who come to mind. But yes, it is more typical for people to use a full real name (or at least a first name) in e-mail.
Traditionally, on NNTP you could fake an address like "real like name" <http://objects.povworld.org/links10.html- XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg@public.gmane.org>, which served to deter spam.
Hey! I did not write that! :-)
And I actually didn't mean to include the http:// URL in there either - whoops. :-) But yeah, gmane does that munging even on message texts.
I wrote "name (at) fake dot domain". I hope it doesn't get munged for you again, it lost all its meaning.
It came through fine that way - gmane just looks at addresses in the form of a@b.TLD (I wonder what *that* will look like).
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.
Yep. And I think it got re-munged when you posted back.
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