On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:25:25 +1000, Chris Cason wrote:

> I'll mention however that this doesn't mean the email address has to be
> displayed publicly (I don't think any forums do that by default).

Web-based forums generally don't have to, but in connecting them to NNTP, 
the value for the 'from' address needs to match (generally) so you can 
tie the accounts together.

On the web side, it can be hidden, but on the NNTP side, at the very 
least, a From: header is required for all posts.  But there's no 
validation checking unless the server specifically has some code to do 
that (which I haven't observed myself - but as innd, for example, is open 
source, there's no reason it couldn't be).



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besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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