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Usenet Web sites Anyone know of any Web sites that allow you to post without displaying your real email address? I'd like to avoid my email address being harvested by spammers.
Otra vez
uhhh.. could you be slightly more vague?
muppet
Sorry, my bad, muppet, it's been a long week. Here's what I meant to write:
Otra vez
If you're posting to a web site, then the web site asks you to give it the email address, no? what's stopping you from writing a fake email address?
GD
GD, what I'm looking for is a Web site that allows me to post to a Usenet newsgroup without displaying my real email address.
Otra vez
Make a temporary email somewhere like hotmail or mailinator, then when it says "what is your REAL email address", lie and give them the temporary one.
Mr. O
Why not use a usenet reading program? Every single one ever written will let you do exactly this.
Tom_
Thanks Tom. Any recommendations?
Otra vez
Outlook Express.
muppet
Outlook Express
Mr. Hat
SECOND!
Mr. Hat
Outlook Express is the suck.
Bob's Your Uncle
I've used a hojillion Usenet clients. Despite being a Microsoft product, OE is probably the best one I've used (though it lacks some features I'd like to see implemented well).
muppet
Try groups.google.com.
_
Don't use the groups myself, but Mozilla Thuna'bird is a newsgroup client. It positively rocks as a POP/IMAP client, so maybe it would be good as a news client too.
OffMyMeds
Thunderbird is a good news reader -- basically the same thing that was in Netscape Communicator 3 (but that was good too -- usenet has been around a long time).
AMS
I like XNews. I found it easier to use than Forte, maybe just because I found it first.
www.MarkTAW.com
slrn
Microsoft Communities?
Throwaway
Another option is to use me@privacy.net as your email. It's an official, technically valid address for those not wishing to reveal their idenity.
Egor
Mailinator.com. Its designed precisely for just such things.
ronk!
Outlook Express is OK. Make sure you mess about with the maintenance options if you're into offline reading, though, lest it delete unread posts after 7 days.
Tom_
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