From: catwheezel@operamail.com 
  
 On 2005-07-06, Bert Hyman  wrote: 
 > rappaportm@verizon.net (NANCY RIESS) wrote in 
 > news:HpSye.34178$Cm6.10026@trndny02: 
 > 
 >> I want to avoid appearing on harvested junk e-mail lists. 
 >> 
 >> How does one post to a newsgroup to avoid this. 
 >> 
 >> Can someone explain anonymous posting, using a newsgroup alias? 
 > 
 > When you configure your "account" in your news reading software, the 
 > information that you enter for your name, email address, etc. is 
 > completely up to you. 
 > 
 > Of course, if you enter a phoney email address, nobody will ever be 
 > able to reply to one of your posts, but that's probably not an issue 
 > for most people. 
 > 
 > Also, when you choose a bogus address, make absolutely certain that 
 > it's not actually a real address that just happens to belong to 
 > someone else. 
  
 Some news-servers have rules about the sort of e-mail addresses you use 
 when posting to them; check the terms and conditions or 'policy' or FAQ to 
 make sure you don't break the rules of the server you want to post to. 
  
 You can use a free web-mail account; if you don't want to read the incoming 
 mail before it is deleted, no-one can force you to. 
  
 Some e-mail service providers have systems that allow you to make 
 'disposable' addresses, which you can easily do away with if they get 
 'spammed up'. 
  
 In practice, no e-mail address is immune from spam, as 'dictionary attacks' 
 will get through even to an address that has never been used for anything. 
  
 Fortunately, the tide of spam seems to be slackening.  I've had this 
 address for five years and it gets less spam now than it did when it was 
 new, but I display it several times a day in newsgroups. 
  
 The safest 'fake' e-mail address is  which is 
 obviously not real and will never be used by anyone as a real address. 
  
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