Stripping info from headers in newsgroup postings

Evning all,

Wasn't quire sure where to post this...

I would like to stop certain bits of info appearing in the headers of my
newsgroup postings (IP, posting host etc).

Do I change newsreader (Gravity 2.5) or can I do it some other way?
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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
Webmaster <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I would like to stop certain bits of info appearing in the headers of my
>newsgroup postings (IP, posting host etc).

An NNTP-Posting-Host header is typically added by your news server,
and there's nothing your newsreader can do to stop it. Good thing too.

-- Richard

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In article <bo6ql4$2pcr$(E-Mail Removed)>, Richard Tobin
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>Webmaster <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I would like to stop certain bits of info appearing in the headers of my
>>newsgroup postings (IP, posting host etc).
>
>An NNTP-Posting-Host header is typically added by your news server,
>and there's nothing your newsreader can do to stop it. Good thing too.

Unless you go to the trouble of running your own news server and disable
the function.
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Webmaster wrote:

> Evning all,
>
> Wasn't quire sure where to post this...
>
> I would like to stop certain bits of info appearing in the headers of my
> newsgroup postings (IP, posting host etc).
>
> Do I change newsreader (Gravity 2.5) or can I do it some other way?

I guess you have to change your news-server.

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 23:21:05 -0000, Webmaster
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Evning all,
>
>Wasn't quire sure where to post this...
>
>I would like to stop certain bits of info appearing in the headers of my
>newsgroup postings (IP, posting host etc).
>
>Do I change newsreader (Gravity 2.5) or can I do it some other way?

you might want to get onto plus.net and ask them to change your
hostname for your IP instead so spammers et al can't easily guess your
primary email address.

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:51:31 +0000, David Mahon <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>In article <bo6ql4$2pcr$(E-Mail Removed)>, Richard Tobin
><(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>>Webmaster <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>I would like to stop certain bits of info appearing in the headers of my
>>>newsgroup postings (IP, posting host etc).
>>
>>An NNTP-Posting-Host header is typically added by your news server,
>>and there's nothing your newsreader can do to stop it. Good thing too.
>
>Unless you go to the trouble of running your own news server and disable
>the function.

or post through an anonymous remailer or a nym account!

You can use anonymous SMTP servers to send your messages.

I use News Rover and it gives options to use mailanon.com, (E-Mail Removed),
remail.obscura.com and anon.efga.org
I haven't tried any of these, just noted the option. There's probably a
subscription required to use these anonymous servers.

Something else News Rover offers in it's privacy control is to select '
X-No-Archive' to the header which apparently suppresses archiving the
message although I think not all newsgroups allow it.

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:51:31 +0000, David Mahon <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>In article <bo6ql4$2pcr$(E-Mail Removed)>, Richard Tobin
><(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>>Webmaster <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>I would like to stop certain bits of info appearing in the headers of my
>>>newsgroup postings (IP, posting host etc).
>>
>>An NNTP-Posting-Host header is typically added by your news server,
>>and there's nothing your newsreader can do to stop it. Good thing too.
>
>Unless you go to the trouble of running your own news server and disable
>the function.

Most ISPs will now spot the missing line and add it. The IP will
be that of your newsserver, but unless you are in a large farm of
machines, that will be enough to identify you.

Regards,
Harry.

In article <BptWkNLTgvp$Ew$(E-Mail Removed)>,
David Mahon <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>An NNTP-Posting-Host header is typically added by your news server,
>>and there's nothing your newsreader can do to stop it. Good thing too.

>Unless you go to the trouble of running your own news server and disable
>the function.

And find a server willing to peer with you. If you connect to your
ISP's server, it will almost certainly only accept POST rather than
IHAVE commands, so it will treat your article as a new posting and
add an NNTP-Posting-Host header regardless.

-- Richard


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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
jsp21c <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Something else News Rover offers in it's privacy control is to select '
>X-No-Archive' to the header which apparently suppresses archiving the
>message although I think not all newsgroups allow it.

That header is for the benefit of search engines like Google, to
prevent them from returning the message in response to search
requests. I've heard that paying customers can get these articles
anyway, but I don't know whether that's true.

-- Richard

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