Why Do So Many People Use Fake E-mail addresses?
In large part this is done in order to remain more or less anonymous. See the section above which discusses reasons for not giving out your e-mail address indiscriminately. The e-mail address posted in your messages can be virtually anything you like as long as it has a “@” character in it. Servers aren’t picky about this. You can change this address by configuring your newsreader via it’s “Options”, “Preferences”, or “Configuration” menu items. Wherever your newsreader asks for an e-mail address, you can use a fake one (except of course when filling in User Validation and Password information that may be required to gain access to your news server). By using a fake e-mail address you will prevent others in the newsgroup from sending you unwanted e-mail or distributing your e-mail address to spammers. But remember that this does NOT make you untraceable. Your news server logs each and every post and stamps it with an ID number so that any single post can be traced right back to you. Ty
