On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:27:49 +0100, Brian Fattorini wrote: > 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
as you can see in the headers of my posting i use the email-addr [EMAIL PROTECTED] (imho enough hint for people to know where to look for my real address. and my signature is 'spoiled' as well. this way i get rid of spammer and people who are too dump to understand this ;-) Manuel -- Anti-spam e-mail address, sorry for the inconvenience! Manuel.Streuhofer /*AT*/ manito /*DOT*/ at
