From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16273 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anders Melchiorsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Post with different address? Date: 25 Aug 1998 14:08:21 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155167 26753 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:06:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:06:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAA16897 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 05:08:38 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10906 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAK09695; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 07:09:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 25 Aug 1998 07:08:05 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA09680 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 07:07:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from eising.k-net.dk (eising.k-net.dtu.dk [130.225.71.227]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA19422 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:07:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 30172 invoked from network); 25 Aug 1998 12:08:32 -0000 Original-Received: from carlsberg.kampsax.dtu.dk (qmailr@192.38.212.2) by eising.k-net.dk with SMTP; 25 Aug 1998 12:08:32 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6670 invoked from network); 25 Aug 1998 12:07:48 -0000 Original-Received: from k0817.kampsax.dtu.dk (and@192.38.215.249) by carlsberg.kampsax.dtu.dk with SMTP; 25 Aug 1998 12:07:48 -0000 Original-Received: (from and@localhost) by k0817.kampsax.dtu.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA12983; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:08:23 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "25 Aug 1998 08:10:26 +0200" Original-Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.37/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16273 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16273 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > This is not a good idea. The From header in all news articles should > be valid. I know. And my From address is, in fact, valid (see signature). I find it quite clever to actually INCLUDE a "nospam." part in the address and thus confuse spamming software; the only problem is if humans start messing with the address because they are used to invalid From headers. Removing "nospam." WILL make the address invalid. > Yes. You can check the dynamically bound variables > `message-this-is-{news,mail}'. I've now documented this in the > manual. Thanks, I will try to get something going. > I do receive some mails with invalid From headers, and I never > notice. When they bounce, I let them drop. I do not try to figure > out what the real address is supposed to be. I'm probably not the > only one, so mangling From headers is not only a bad idea for > ideological reasons, but in practice as well. I feel exactly the same way which is why I am using a valid From header. But to confuse people as little as possible I still would want mails to have my "real" address. -- Regards, Anders (address is valid)