Re: Newsgroups: MS should WARN us FIRST not to use real email addresses here!!
- From: "PA Bear" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:38:07 -0500
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About e-mail addresses and privacy
It is highly likely that you will receive unwanted messages (spam) in your regular e-mail account if you use your actual, unmodified e-mail address as your display e-mail address in a discussion group. Note that your display e-mail address is different from your notification e-mail address. Your notification e-mail address must be a real e-mail address in order for you to be notified; it is stored privately by Microsoft. It is not visible to the Community. However, your display e-mail address is public and visible to everyone in the Community.
People who send unwanted bulk e-mail (spammers) regularly gather e-mail addresses from discussion groups. To help prevent spam in your regular e-mail account, the default display e-mail address when you post a message in a discussion group is yourdisplayname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The following are the display e-mail address options you can choose from:
Use a false display e-mail address we generate for you
The default address yourdisplayname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx will be used when you post a message if you do not change your display e-mail address.
Use a modified display e-mail address
Use a different version of your e-mail address that others will understand, but that spam tools can't automatically pick up. For example, if an actual e-mail address were someone@xxxxxxxxxxx, we would recommend modifying it to one of the following:
someone@xxxxxxxxxxxx(donotspam)
someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In this case, the spam tools will send mail to an invalid e-mail address, and others will know to exclude the invalid information when they send you e-mail.
Use a secondary e-mail account
Set up or use an e-mail account, such as a Hotmail account, that is separate from your primary account for posting to discussion groups.
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Source: http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales/help/help_en-us.htm#AboutEmailAndPrivacy
The above is admittedly from an MS page about using the web-based newsreader and the same caveats /should/ be prominent on pages about using NNTP newsreaders (e.g., http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/support/newsgroups/howto.mspx).
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
Dan wrote:
<snip>
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...
.
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