"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 7/4/2014 2:51 PM, sf wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 13:06:51 -1000, dsi1
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Boy, this is confusing... so what you're saying is that posters like you
>>> should use gmail addresses? How does that work?
>>
>> Easy. You can forward your gmail to what you use as your regular
>> email address. If an address shifting stalker or spammer starts to
>> bother you, just untick the box to forward email to your main address.
>>
>
> That seems quite involved. What I like to do is not give out any address
> on Usenet. I thought that's what everybody did. Perhaps I'm paranoid?

Depends on your newsreader. Mine used to allow me to use a fake or munged
address. But at some point it would not. I could only use the real one.