From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10251 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "C. R. Oldham" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Mangling my email to avoid spammers. Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:52:00 -0700 () Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "C. R. Oldham" NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150153 23333 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:42:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA16420 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:12:25 -0800 Original-Received: from socrates.nca.asu.edu (socrates.ed.asu.edu [129.219.88.66]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 22:56:07 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 5035 invoked from network); 17 Mar 1997 21:57:39 -0000 Original-Received: from kirk.nca.asu.edu (129.219.88.141) by socrates.nca.asu.edu with SMTP; 17 Mar 1997 21:57:39 -0000 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: X-X-Sender: cro@socrates.nca.asu.edu Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10251 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10251 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? -- | Charles R. (C. R.) Oldham | NCA Commission on Schools | | cro@nca.asu.edu | Arizona St. Univ., PO Box 873011 | | V:602/965-8700 F:602/965-9423 |________ Tempe, AZ 85287-3011_ | | "I like it!"--Citizen G'Kar, Babylon 5 | #include X_>|