[Marv]

Originally Posted by allan grossman

I'm gonna politely disagree here unless there's a way to disable the function. Zillions of spammers mine Usenet for email addresses - I'd prefer the addresses remain munged up.

Hi Allan,

that?s the reason why I never release me email-adress to the usenet. I use a nospam@myhost.com adress, which spammers can reply to but their emails become deleted automaticly.

But I think - for me and my forums - it wouldn?t be a useful feature. In the past days more and more people which are using clients for posting/reading are flaming why the heck we dont obey the usenet rules which include that every post has to have a correct and replyable emailadress which belongs to the original poster. (For details have a look into RFC 2822) .
By now some of them say that in case we don?t change the behavior of this script they?ll drop abuse complaints to the network administration and our newsgroup-provider for closing our accounts. And as it looks so far they will obey the rules and disable our account. Even if the newsgroup-provider would reject their request - the network admins won?t.
So,..for us it?s not only a useful feature - it?s a needed one :ermm:

If this could be implemented into this hack I would really appreciate that. Otherwise we`ld have to disable "Sending postings to newsgroups" and would have a read-only forum that makes no sense for anyone.