OT: usenet email address editing...

[Pimpom]

On 7/18/2020 7:11 AM, Phil Hobbs wrote:

On 2020-07-17 21:32, sea moss wrote:
On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 6:24:00 PM UTC-7, Phil Hobbs wrote:
On 2020-07-17 21:17, sea moss wrote:
I use google groups to access this fine forum. And I just noticed my email address appears anytime my posts are responded to. But everyone else here seems to have figured out how to automatically edit their email address, adding \"no spam\" or something in the name. How do you do it?

By not using GG.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(posting from Thunderbird)


haha. yeah, I was expecting a response like this. I will \"look into it\"

You can get a free account with Eternal September and/or AOIE. I
actually use both, plus Supernews, in the same client, because they
don\'t all get wedged in quite the same way. Also Supernews has 18 years
or so of history, not that far off from the Deja News database that
Google bought out. TB is pretty easy to set up.

Other folks like Forte Agent and even the classic text based things such
as tin.

One word to the wise--don\'t use the same client for mail and news, or
you\'ll wind up posting some personal message here by mistake.

On Qubes OS, I use TB for both, but in different VMs so they don\'t get
mixed up.

Those are excellent recommendations, including the caveat about
using the same newsreader for mail and news.

I also used free accounts with Eternal September, AIOE and
Albasani until I switched to a paid account with Tweaknews two
years ago. The difference is that paid services are generally
faster and more reliable than the free ones and have longer
retention times.

Tweaknews has several plans. I opted for a block plan instead of
a monthly subscription, which means that a user pays for a block
of data that doesn\'t expire until it\'s used up. I paid 2 euros
for a 10GB block and have hardly made a dent in 2 years.

 

[Martin Brown]

On 18/07/2020 02:32, sea moss wrote:

On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 6:24:00 PM UTC-7, Phil Hobbs wrote:
On 2020-07-17 21:17, sea moss wrote:
I use google groups to access this fine forum. And I just noticed my email address appears anytime my posts are responded to. But everyone else here seems to have figured out how to automatically edit their email address, adding \"no spam\" or something in the name. How do you do it?

By not using GG.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(posting from Thunderbird)

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com

haha. yeah, I was expecting a response like this. I will \"look into it\"

Most mail clients can handle Usenet you just need to find a free server
that offers the groups you want to subscribe to. AIOE is the one I use -
it sometimes idiosyncratically bans posting to certain groups prone to
flame wars but apart from that it is fine for low traffic postings.

It affected me once when uk.rec.gardening was on the banned list.

You get a 24 hour ban if you post more than a certain number of posts in
a day I forget how many perhaps 50.

http://news.aioe.org/

For more details. You can pay for access to more complete and permissive
news servers but for text only and for free this one is hard to beat.


--
Regards,
Martin Brown

 

[Martin Brown]

On 18/07/2020 02:32, sea moss wrote:

On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 6:24:00 PM UTC-7, Phil Hobbs wrote:
On 2020-07-17 21:17, sea moss wrote:
I use google groups to access this fine forum. And I just noticed my email address appears anytime my posts are responded to. But everyone else here seems to have figured out how to automatically edit their email address, adding \"no spam\" or something in the name. How do you do it?

By not using GG.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(posting from Thunderbird)

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com

haha. yeah, I was expecting a response like this. I will \"look into it\"

Most mail clients can handle Usenet you just need to find a free server
that offers the groups you want to subscribe to. AIOE is the one I use -
it sometimes idiosyncratically bans posting to certain groups prone to
flame wars but apart from that it is fine for low traffic postings.

It affected me once when uk.rec.gardening was on the banned list.

You get a 24 hour ban if you post more than a certain number of posts in
a day I forget how many perhaps 50.

http://news.aioe.org/

For more details. You can pay for access to more complete and permissive
news servers but for text only and for free this one is hard to beat.


--
Regards,
Martin Brown

 

[Tony Stewart]

On Sat. 18 Jul.-20 12:12 a.m., Ricketty C wrote:

On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 9:17:25 PM UTC-4, sea moss wrote:
I use google groups to access this fine forum. And I just noticed my email address appears anytime my posts are responded to. But everyone else here seems to have figured out how to automatically edit their email address, adding \"no spam\" or something in the name. How do you do it?

I created an account just for GG with \"deletethisbit\" in the name. Few ever do and every once in a while someone sends me a direct mail to this stupid account, so I have to check it periodically. On the other hand, it gets very little spam!

It\'s not that hard.

Just type anything you want in your *Reply-to-Address* in the NEWS settings.

 

[Tony Stewart]

On Sat. 18 Jul.-20 12:12 a.m., Ricketty C wrote:

On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 9:17:25 PM UTC-4, sea moss wrote:
I use google groups to access this fine forum. And I just noticed my email address appears anytime my posts are responded to. But everyone else here seems to have figured out how to automatically edit their email address, adding \"no spam\" or something in the name. How do you do it?

I created an account just for GG with \"deletethisbit\" in the name. Few ever do and every once in a while someone sends me a direct mail to this stupid account, so I have to check it periodically. On the other hand, it gets very little spam!

It\'s not that hard.

Just type anything you want in your *Reply-to-Address* in the NEWS settings.

 

[Ricketty C]

On Sunday, July 19, 2020 at 8:04:43 PM UTC-4, Anthony Stewart wrote:

On Sat. 18 Jul.-20 12:12 a.m., Ricketty C wrote:
On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 9:17:25 PM UTC-4, sea moss wrote:
I use google groups to access this fine forum. And I just noticed my email address appears anytime my posts are responded to. But everyone else here seems to have figured out how to automatically edit their email address, adding \"no spam\" or something in the name. How do you do it?

I created an account just for GG with \"deletethisbit\" in the name. Few ever do and every once in a while someone sends me a direct mail to this stupid account, so I have to check it periodically. On the other hand, it gets very little spam!

It\'s not that hard.

Just type anything you want in your *Reply-to-Address* in the NEWS settings.

Are you using Google Groups? I\'ve not found that setting. Can you show me where it is?

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Rick C.

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[Ricketty C]

On Sunday, July 19, 2020 at 8:04:43 PM UTC-4, Anthony Stewart wrote:

On Sat. 18 Jul.-20 12:12 a.m., Ricketty C wrote:
On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 9:17:25 PM UTC-4, sea moss wrote:
I use google groups to access this fine forum. And I just noticed my email address appears anytime my posts are responded to. But everyone else here seems to have figured out how to automatically edit their email address, adding \"no spam\" or something in the name. How do you do it?

I created an account just for GG with \"deletethisbit\" in the name. Few ever do and every once in a while someone sends me a direct mail to this stupid account, so I have to check it periodically. On the other hand, it gets very little spam!

It\'s not that hard.

Just type anything you want in your *Reply-to-Address* in the NEWS settings.

Are you using Google Groups? I\'ve not found that setting. Can you show me where it is?

--

Rick C.

+ Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
+ Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

 

[Tony Stewart]

On Sat. 18 Jul.-20 12:12 a.m., Ricketty C wrote:

On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 9:17:25 PM UTC-4, sea moss wrote:
I use google groups to access this fine forum. And I just noticed my email address appears anytime my posts are responded to. But everyone else here seems to have figured out how to automatically edit their email address, adding \"no spam\" or something in the name. How do you do it?

I created an account just for GG with \"deletethisbit\" in the name. Few ever do and every once in a while someone sends me a direct mail to this stupid account, so I have to check it periodically. On the other hand, it gets very little spam!

It\'s not that hard.

Just type anything you want in your *Reply-to-Address* in the NEWS settings.