Posting anonymously, or with a fake name and address, is one way to avoid "address harvesting," but users should ensure that the fake address is not valid. Users who want to receive legitimate email regarding their posts or Web sites can alter their addresses so humans can figure out but spammers cannot. For instance, joe@example.net might post as joeNOS@PAM.example.net.invalid, or display his email address as an image instead of text. Address munging, however, can cause legitimate replies to be lost. And if it's not the user's valid address, it has to be truly invalid, otherwise someone or some server will still get the spam for it. See http://www.2kevin.net/munging.html
End-user-techniques
