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Old August 1st 03, 08:32 AM
Marc Till
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Looks like you posted through Google (which I do not and don't know how
to do that)

Basicly, when posting on a newsgroup, you have two addresses on which
you should have control :

One is the "FROM" address, which is the one that gets retrieved by
spammers and therefore shoud be modified. Rather than adding text in the
real address, you should make it look like an address on the spammer's
local server :
] (see my "FROM" address as an example)
This will cause the spammer's mail server to return a "non-existing
user" message.

The other one is the "REPLY TO" address, which is said to be safer, in
which you can leave your real address, so that people can join you.

If you use both addresses, people willing to reply will use the real
one, whereas spammers will hopefully use the modified one.

Hope this helps

Marc Till


Mark Busse a écrit:
How do you put thoes "DELETE_THIS_TO_REPLY" lines in your address? I
went to the change address screen for my account, but I see my last
post has my un-edited address.