On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:04:01 +0000, Mark Wooding wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes: > >> I see that you published my unobfuscated e-mail address on USENET for >> all to see. I obfuscated it for a reason, to keep the spammers away. >> I'm assuming this was a momentary lapse of judgement, for which I >> expect an apology. Otherwise, it becomes grounds for an abuse complaint >> to your ISP. > > Don't be silly! If anything, using forged email addresses in Usenet > headers is closer to abuse. Note that there's nothing to stop > `new_zealand' from becoming a TLD at some point (the underscore makes it > unlikely, I grant). If you'd mangled the local part, or used an > explicitly reserved TLD such as `example', then there wouldn't be a > problem. > Using the .invalid TLD is a generally accepted way of writing an intentionally fake address for use in USENET.
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