Posting anonymously

[Anonymous]

What is the convention for email address?
Can I leave it out entirely?
Can I leave the From header out entirely?

[Whiskers]

It isn't a good idea to insert fake AIOE headers when posting via some
other NSP (in this instance, Albasani). At the very least you risk
clashing with a genuine AIOE Message-ID and so disrupting propagation of
articles.

You can't post without a From header, which has to include an email
address in a valid format. Don't use an email address or domain name
that you aren't entitled to use. If you don't want to create a free
disposable email address just for your usenet articles (you don't even
need to read the emails you get) then invent an email address which ends
with .invalid - this will tell other people and their email programs
that the address is invalid so no-one will waste time trying to contact
it. <http://individual.net/faq.php#5.3>

There are many levels of "anonymity". Using a name that isn't on your
birth certificate and a .invalid email address is barely scratching the
surface.

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[Whiskers]

On 2015-11-01, Whiskers <catwh...@operamail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-10-31, Anonymous <us...@example.net> wrote:
>> What is the convention for email address?
>> Can I leave it out entirely?
>> Can I leave the From header out entirely?
>
> It isn't a good idea to insert fake AIOE headers when posting via some
> other NSP (in this instance, Albasani). At the very least you risk
> clashing with a genuine AIOE Message-ID and so disrupting propagation of
> articles.

Oops! Scratch that paragraph - I forgot this is a moderated group.

[~BD~]

On 01/11/2015 20:45, Peter J Ross wrote:
> In news.newusers.questions on Sat, 31 Oct 2015 20:25:02 +0000 (UTC),

> The From: line is mandatory, and must contain a validly-formed email
> address (genuine or not). Otherwise you won't be able to post unless
> you find a very badly configured news server. Even then, other news
> servers will probably drop the posts, so you won't get any readers.
>
> If you're not willing to use an email address that belongs to you, you
> can make something up, but it should end in the string ".invalid" to
> ensure that nobody tries to reply to you by email and that you don't
> accidentally forge a real or potentially real address. (These
> objections apply even to example.com and example.net. The domain
> owners probably won't complain about the forgery, but people may still
> try to email you and wonder why they don't get replies.)
>
> This is an acceptable form:
> From: anonymous <anon...@example.invalid>
>
> But you should use a distinctive string rather than "anonymous" if you
> don't want to fall foul of killfiles. Some people ignore all anonymous
> posts, because most anonymous posts contain nothing but off-topic
> rubbish.

Hello Peter

When I first started using Usenet it was suggested that I use what you
see in the email address which I've used in THIS post of mine.

Are you aware of such a convention, or should I use "invalid" as you
suggest?

David B.

[Kathy Morgan]

You should definitely use the "invalid" as Peter suggested.

We are aware of that convention, but as Peter said, any time you are
using an address, even a fake one, that doesn't belong to you, you
should append ".invalid" to the end. That would change your string to
<~BD~@nomail.afraid.org.invalid> or <~BD~@nomail.afraid.invalid>

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Kathy (posting with a valid address)