Re: Newsgroups: MS should WARN us FIRST not to use real email addresses here!!
- From: "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:44:30 -0800
Hi Dan.
While it would have been nice, I don't think you can lay this all on MS. There are hundreds of non MS newsgroups and the same holds true for them. They don't give this advice either. It isn't just a Microsoft Newsgroup issue.
I don't recall your exact problem before, but I was glad to help.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~
"Dan" <smooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OokpDZUIHHA.536@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This is not a request for assistance, but rather a warning for newer users here, to hopefully prevent you from the same frustrations I have experienced as a result of using this forum.
Let me say that I have found this forum EXTREMELY helpful for solving problems. Bruce Hagen, if he is still around, did an excellent job assisting me. He also alerted me to the fact that my real email address was available to all on this forum, BECAUSE MICROSOFT FAILS TO WARN & INSTRUCT USERS WHEN SETTING UP OUTLOOK EXPRESS TO USE THESE NEWSGROUPS, that you should NOT, I repeat NOT, NOT, NOT enter your real email address!!!!!!!!!!
When I set this up, it required me to enter an email address in order to post here. Nothing warned me that my REAL address would be easily accessible to all here, NOR did instruct me that I could enter a false address to thwart the spammers when entering the REQUIRED email address during sign-up!!!!
Had Microsoft offered this very simple instruction in the beginning, I am absolutely convinced that I would have NEVER, EVER, received ANY SPAM!!!! This is on their network afterall, and their NEGLIGENCE to provide this security information has caused me a great deal of headache, that now seems will NEVER go away, making me wish I had never, ever used this newsgroup in the first place!!!
Thank you to Bruce Hagen for recognizing and informing me about this dangerous security breach. It would have been better if Microsoft were RESPONSIBLE enough to have given this information in the newsgroup setup instructions and process!!!!!
The RESULT of this NEGLIGENCE on Microsoft's part is that after just a few postings before Bruce's alert to me, I am now bombarded on this email account daily for the last 9 MONTHS by spammers, and ONLY on this account. I have NEVER received spam on ANY OTHER email account I have. Many of these spams have been VIRUSES & WORMS!!!! And luckily my Anti-Virus scanners have been able to remove them. Although I immediately followed Bruce's intructions to change the email address displayed, it was too late, and I don't think there is anyway for me to remove the previous postings with the real email address. So Microsoft has left me with breach in security which it seems I can NEVER fix, unless I CANCEL this email account. That is really SAD!!! and worse yet, it was TOTALLY UNNECESSARY!!!
If Microsoft were honestly SERIOUS about network security, they would alert ALL people to this security breach before allowing them to use these newsgroups!!
I don't even want to imagine how much worse this would be if Bruce had not alerted me to this issue at all, but I hope this message will possibly assist others in avoiding the headaches I have had.
And Thanks A Lot Microsoft... I thought your mission was to provide solutions to the masses, not to cause extra problems... but what do I know anyway.
Best of Luck to All,
Sincerely,
D.
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