Mangling my email to avoid spammers.

["C. R. Oldham" <cro@nca.asu.edu>]

Greetings,

I've been part of Usenet for a long time--going on 10 years now.  It pains
me to see spammers sucking the life out of it by trolling for addresses
and then sending UCE.  I had five UCE messages in my inbox this morning
and can only expect it to grow.

Thus I have resolved to mangle my email address when I post to Usenet.
However, this is proving to be more difficult than I thought with Gnus.

I want my real email address to appear nowhere in any article I submit to
Usenet.  I've figured out how to do this for the From: header using a
defadvice (with a clue from an article posted to the ding list), but the
Sender field still persists.  Lars, I know you don't like this, but when
I'm traveling I pay for my connect time and I don't want to give the
spammers more of a foothold than I already have.

The code I'm using to disguise my user-mail-address is below:


(defadvice message-user-mail-address
  (before generate-user-mail-address activate compile)
  "Change the value of the user mail address based on the group."
  (setq user-mail-address
        (cond
         ((message-news-p) "cro@n_c_a_.asu.edu")
         (t "cro@nca.asu.edu"))))

Comments?

I originally thought I could do this by adding to a hook, but I couldn't
find the hook.  Is there one?

Now, what about my Sender field?  Do I need to worry about it?  I would
think that spammers grab every address they can get at.

If I wanted to mangle the sender field also, how would I go about it?



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