From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 15 13:41:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from papoose.quick.com (papoose.quick.com [207.239.63.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1CF537B9EA for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 13:41:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jq@quick.com) Received: (from jq@localhost) by papoose.quick.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA07399 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:41:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200004152041.QAA07399@papoose.quick.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) From: "James E. Quick" Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:41:10 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Looking for ways to protect myself from spammers on usenet. Reply-To: jq@quick.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Spammers have finally gotten too bad on usenet for me to keep posting news with a real email address. I use an ancient newsreader (a heavily modified version of strn) which posts via Pnews->inews. I want to keep using my favorite news software but I no longer wish to provide my email address to all those spamming assholes. I have done some net searches to to see how people are solving this problem, but have not come up with anything. My first quess is that the cleanest solution would involve patching inews by replacing the uname, gecos and hostname with suitably altered versions. Another approcah would be to use a perl script on the outbound leg (nntpsend) to filter addresses before being sent out. Someone must have done this before, can anyone provide me with some references to pre-existing wheels? --- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | If only the HMO would cover my allergy to gravity. ) | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message