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Old 03-12-2005, 19:47   #9
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Re: Newsgroups

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Originally Posted by paul11974
...Posting Failed ("From" Header not in Internet Syntax.)'...

Your "From" header is, of course, where you put your email address, Paul. Maybe you haven't set an address that OE can recognise as a valid one.

Be careful with this. Use a 'throwaway' address (i.e. something like a Hotmail or Yahoo address set up for the purpose), or 'munge' the address: i.e. change it so that a human being can decipher the real address, but a program can't.

The reason for this is that spammers trawl newsgroups looking for valid email addresses to add to their lists - any email address posted on Usenet is likely to get spammed. They do this with 'bots' - programs designed for this. Thus any address is added as listed - they don't have time to go through the lists and decipher munged ones themselves.
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