What is the convention for email address?
Can I leave it out entirely?
Can I leave the From header out entirely?
What is the convention for email address?
Can I leave it out entirely?
Can I leave the From header out entirely?
In news.newusers.questions on Sat, 31 Oct 2015 20:25:02 +0000 (UTC), Anonymous wrote:
What is the convention for email address?
Can I leave it out entirely?
Can I leave the From header out entirely?
The From: line is mandatory, and must contain a validly-formed email
address (genuine or not). Otherwise you won't be able to post unless
you find a very badly configured news server. Even then, other news
servers will probably drop the posts, so you won't get any readers.
If you're not willing to use an email address that belongs to you, you
can make something up, but it should end in the string ".invalid" to
ensure that nobody tries to reply to you by email and that you don't accidentally forge a real or potentially real address. (These
objections apply even to example.com and example.net. The domain
owners probably won't complain about the forgery, but people may still
try to email you and wonder why they don't get replies.)
This is an acceptable form:
From: anonymous <anonymous@example.invalid>
But you should use a distinctive string rather than "anonymous" if you
don't want to fall foul of killfiles. Some people ignore all anonymous
posts, because most anonymous posts contain nothing but off-topic
rubbish.
On 2015-10-31, Anonymous <user@example.net> wrote:
What is the convention for email address?
Can I leave it out entirely?
Can I leave the From header out entirely?
It isn't a good idea to insert fake AIOE headers when posting via some
other NSP (in this instance, Albasani). At the very least you risk
clashing with a genuine AIOE Message-ID and so disrupting propagation of articles.
You can't post without a From header, which has to include an email
address in a valid format. Don't use an email address or domain name
that you aren't entitled to use. If you don't want to create a free disposable email address just for your usenet articles (you don't even
need to read the emails you get) then invent an email address which ends
with .invalid - this will tell other people and their email programs
that the address is invalid so no-one will waste time trying to contact
it. <http://individual.net/faq.php#5.3>
There are many levels of "anonymity". Using a name that isn't on your
birth certificate and a .invalid email address is barely scratching the surface.
On 01/11/2015 20:45, Peter J Ross wrote:
The From: line is mandatory, and must contain a validly-formed email address (genuine or not). Otherwise you won't be able to post unless
you find a very badly configured news server. Even then, other news
servers will probably drop the posts, so you won't get any readers.
If you're not willing to use an email address that belongs to you, you
can make something up, but it should end in the string ".invalid" to
ensure that nobody tries to reply to you by email and that you don't accidentally forge a real or potentially real address. (These
objections apply even to example.com and example.net. The domain
owners probably won't complain about the forgery, but people may still
try to email you and wonder why they don't get replies.)
This is an acceptable form:
From: anonymous <anonymous@example.invalid>
But you should use a distinctive string rather than "anonymous" if you don't want to fall foul of killfiles. Some people ignore all anonymous posts, because most anonymous posts contain nothing but off-topic
rubbish.
Hello Peter
When I first started using Usenet it was suggested that I use what you
see in the email address which I've used in THIS post of mine.
Are you aware of such a convention, or should I use "invalid" as you
suggest?
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