Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design decisions for Usenet

Re:Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design dec... by y03a on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:19PM (#16480148)

"If you do not wan't to publish your e-mail address, you can use [email protected] or any other address ending with the top level domain .invalid. This namespace has been reserved for this purpose."

Tried to register with [email protected] and got "Too bad, we won't be able to send the password to that address." Am I missing something? Do you first have to register with a valid email and then change it to a .invalid address?

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Re:Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design dec... by y03a on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @11:38PM (#16480715)

I bit the bullet and registered with my real email address. The email from solani reiterates "If you don't want to use your real E-Mail-address, please use an address from the top-level-domain ".invalid""

Where/how do I do that now that I've registered? They don't seem to understand that, to me, giving them my real email address just to sign up is the same as "publishing" it.

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Re:Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design dec... by Tech-Noir on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:33AM (#16480913)

Here's one you don't need to register/sign up to use:

https://news.aioe.org/

As for Solani:

> The email from solani reiterates "If you don't want to use your real E-Mail-address, please use an address from the top-level-domain ".invalid""

They mean on posts you make to Usenet. Put that ".invalid" address in the From field on your Newsreader.

You should probably check with Solani if they display your IP address on posts though (NNTP-Posting-Host), because some news servers do.

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