[sent later] On 2010-06-29 01:27, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:07:53 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
Yes, using a non real address makes sense. But having the common name (user part?) posted as an alias looks strange to me.
Traditionally, on NNTP you could fake an address like "real like name" <http://objects.povworld.org/links10.html@public.gmane.org>, which served to deter spam.
Hey! I did not write that! :-) I wrote "name (at) fake dot domain". I hope it doesn't get munged for you again, it lost all its meaning.
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.
I see myself on gmane as hendersj-[random character string] at public.gmane.org instead of my gmail.com e-mail address.
It makes sense to me. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith))