Excuse me, Alan, could we discuss news.individual.net?

In another thread you gave some reasons why you don't like posts from
news.individual.net. I'd appreciate it if you'd be willing to discuss
them.

Alan Connor wrote:

I did forget to point out for the newbies that individual.net is an
_anonymous_ newsserver. There are no identifiers in the headers
usable by anyone but their newsadmins.

It's not anonymous in any meaningful sense of the word. I pay an
annual fee by credit card, so they can find me if they need to. I
have to authenticate with a userid and password to post. Every post
has a trace header that they can tie to my account, and an abuse
header with their e-mail address. What more do they need to do in
your opinion?


These are a favorite of trolls for obvious reasons. Because
individual.net has a low tolerance for abuse, trolls usually use
them for their "nice-guy aliases"...

Does this mean you'd rather read posts made through a usenet service
with a high or medium tolerance for abuse?


I also don't understand some of your other comments about my headers.

From: Adam Funk <a24061@xxxxxxxxx>
Throwaway and anonymous mail account.

It's a real e-mail account (I admit, not my main one) that I check
once or twice a week and have been using for years. Your From header
is, as it says, "invalid" --- why is that better?


You also complained about these headers:

Message-ID: <f0alm3-ilu.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
X-Orig-Path: news.ducksburg.com!news

because news.ducksburg.com isn't a real hostname, but neither is
"b29x3m.invalid" in your Message-ID headers!

You can create any MID you want with any decent newsreader.

As you must know, the custom MID is useful for slrn (to increase the
score of follow-ups to one's own posts).


X-Orig-Path: news.ducksburg.com!news
news.ducksburg.com would be in the "Path:" header at the beginning
if that was anything but bullschitt.

I run leafnode rather than slrnpull, and it always adds a Path header,
which my upstream service (individual.net) changes to X-Orig-Path and
replaces with its own Path header. Wouldn't you prefer this because
it means the Path ends with the authenticated server rather than the
fictional hostname used in the MIDs.
.

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