Terry, This is the point I have been trying to make, to post on the gmane forums you have to register with gmane at "Gmane Autoauthorizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> using a genuine e-mail address. When posting you have to use this authorised address. This makes every contributor to this forum wide open for their addresses to be harvested by spammers. Derek
"Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Incidentally, privacy.net is a real domain. Do the owners freely give > permission for its use as a fake address? > > When you use gmane, you require permission from gmane to lodge messages. > > Theoretically, an additonal permission is required from the list > moderator; that, as I understand it, is quite different from the authority > you require from gmane. > > > Derek wrote: >> Harold, >> I tried to post with the e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it would not >> upload and was refused with the message below: >> >> "Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject 'Re: Re: Re: Re: >> Spam >> received for my gemane enrolment address', Account: 'news.gmane.org', >> Server: 'news.gmane.org', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '441 You need >> a >> valid email address to post: Couldn't contact SMTP server on >> privacy.net', >> Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 441, Error Number: 0x800CCCA9" >> >> Derek >> >> "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> On Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:16 PM [GMT+1=CET], Derek >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> If you post to an *e-mail* group using a fictitious address, how do you >> expect to see replies? And if you expect to see replies you must use an >> e-mail address that, by definition, can be "harvested". >> >> The solution, as another poster has pointed out, is to read the list as a >> newsgroup (NNPT) using a news reader. I don't know what you use at the >> moment but there are any number of free news readers around. Both Outlook >> and Outlook Express do it and I know from experience with OE that you can >> post from e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Harold Fuchs >> London, England >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > -- > > If you're seeking, check out http://www.rci.org.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
