On Monday, 11 May 2015 at 21:15:33 UTC, Dzhon Smit wrote:
> [quote]Email address
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> When posting, you need to indicate an email address. It doesn't need to be a valid one; this software will not send anything to the specified address. The email address will be made public to other users of the news server / mailing list you are posting to. Therefore, please be aware that malicious robots may be able to collect your address and send spam to it.[/quote]
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> This is quite disappointing, I'd prefer spam from this forum rather than from elsewhere.

There is no way around this if you want your message to reach NNTP and mailing list users, which are about half of the posters here. The relevant protocols require a valid-looking email address in the "From" header. As the help text says, the address doesn't need to be actually valid.

On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 14:58:40 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> There is no way around this if you want your message to reach NNTP and mailing list users, which are about half of the posters here. The relevant protocols require a valid-looking email address in the "From" header. As the help text says, the address doesn't need to be actually valid.

You could default to a specific address, though, like anything@example.com or noreply@forum.dlang.org. Reducing the work for poor Elsa over at <http://invalid.com>.