This is a public service announcement from the maintainer of the server that misc.taxes.moderated relies upon to function.
If you use a fake return address in your postings because you don't want to post your real address and have it harvested by spammers, then it is incumbent upon you to to make sure that it really IS a non-working email address, rather than the address of a spam-trap honeypot set up by anti-spammers.
Because if it's a honeypot, and the MTM moderation server tries to send an acknowledgment to you in response to your submission, then that's going to cause the server to be added to anti-spam blacklists, impeding its email delivery.
Specifically (though not exclusively), using "@NOSPAMgmail.com" as your return address domain isn't as harmless as you think it is:
$ host NOSPAMgmail.com NOSPAMgmail.com has address 65.60.35.76 NOSPAMgmail.com mail is handled by 10 getblacklisted.NOSPAMgmail.com.
I hope you see the problem there.
My server got blacklisted last night because someone in this group is using that domain in their return address. I can't email them directly about it because, obviously, I don't have their real address.
The server that runs MTM is also my family email server. When MTM causes my server to be put onto blocklists, it prevents my family's email from being delivered. This is not OK.
To be honest, it's highly unlikely nowadays that using a fake domain in your return address is going to measurably reduce the amount of spam you receive. First of all, most email service providers have good spam filters nowadays. Second, believe me, the spammers already have your email address. And it's unlikely that most of them are wasting time scraping addresses from Usenet; it's not a particularly target-rich environment.
But if you insist on doing this, then you need to make sure the domain you're using is actually fake. Go to
Moving forward, any submissions to this group from NOSPAMgmail.com will be silently dropped. I do not have the time or energy to deal with getting my server taken off of blacklists because of this.