In my Thanksgiving spam post, I mentioned that one way to hide your
address in Usenet newsgroups is to use a fake email address in your
posts.  While I have been guilty of using the fake email address
foo@bar.com, several alert TOURBUS riders point out that there are
three fake addresses that will work even better:

      anyword@example.com
      anyword@example.org
      anyword@example.net

You can replace the word "anyword" with any word at all.  The folks at
the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) recently reserved these
second level domain names for experimentation and testing.  There are
two benefits to this:

      1. Web programmers and technical writers can use example domain
         addresses in their work without the fear of pointing their
         audience to a real, working address; and

      2. People like you and me can use the example domain addresses
         when nosy Web sites ask us to key in our email addresses or
         Web page addresses.

Ain't technology grand?