From Newsgroup: alt.privacy.anon-server
Librarian2025 wrote:
Also, I noticed that your mail2news service inserts this line:
Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address
above. It was posted by the mail-to-news gateway at news.tcpreset.net.
On the substance you were right, so the header is gone. The gateway no
longer adds a Comment: line. If you want one on your own articles, put
it in your own client and the filter passes it through untouched.
This is not correct. This line should be inserted by anonymous
remailers, mail2news services themselves do not provide anonymity
(unless you also replace From header). My email address is where my
message originated from. I don't use mail2news service for "anonymity",
I'm just too lazy to register anywhere.
Nothing about this gateway ever claimed to provide anonymity, and it
does not. Your From: goes out byte for byte as submitted, which is why
your real address sat on that article.
The deleted Comments: line was a canned string inherited from the
Nym-mixnet injection path, where From: is legitimately rewritten and the posting genuinely is anonymous.
It should never have been applied to ordinary mail submissions.
Corrected.
As for From: handling itself, the tool already gives you the
conventional Usenet mechanism: the _nospam recipient variant, documented
in crooks/mail2news (github.com/crooks/mail2news) and used across
mail2news installs for decades. Address the gateway as
mail2news_nospam-...@ and it rewrites your From: into a sentinel address
and moves your real one to Author-Supplied-Address. An anti-spam
convention, not anonymity, and always the poster's opt-in, never a
gateway default.
Best Regards
Gabx
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