On 27 Aug 2002, it is alleged that Brian Fattorini sauntered in to
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> Hi,
>
> In an attempt to prevent email address harvesting programs picking up my
> email address from news group posting (a well known rich picking ground
> for spammers) I often append something like NO-SPAM to the end of my
> email address.
>
> For example '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' may become
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
>
> For legitimate users wishing to contact me directly it becomes obvious
> what my true email address is.
>
> Mozilla does not allow newsgroup postings if the email address is in
> this format, presumably because the email address is not RFC compliant
> or reverse DNS reverse lookup fails.
>
> Instead I have to revert back to Netscape 4.7 for newsgroup postings.
>
> Can Mozilla be made to allow this? If not is there another alternative
> method?
>
>
> Regards,
> Brian Fattorini
?! -- When you set up the news account, use the munged addy. If you've
tried that and it's still not working, try moving 'NO-SPAM' to before the
.com.
/b.
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snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.win32
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.mac
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix
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