Helen
Unfortunately, the new spate of SWEN worm is doing its work. Everyone's
email address is being harvested from these Newsgroups. What you need to do
is to 'spoof' your email address. Assuming you are using Outlook Express, go
to Tools, Accounts and double-click on the Microsoft Public Newsgroup. Now
change your email address to something that sensible users will spot is
spoofed by harvesting machines won't. Change yours to something like
(e-mail address removed). Unfortunately, you have left this too late for your
current email address, so I recommend getting another email account and
spoofing before using any public groups.