Please help me reverse the problem you started!

[Robert Wall]

To whom it may concern:

I have been relatively free from junk mail for the past
four years; that is, until I posted a message on this
newsgroup site last week.

Within hours, a flood of junk mail began to fill my Inbox,
nearly half of them Microsoft Security related. This is no
coincidence!

I politely ask you to remove me from all possible address
lists I have been added to as a result of posting my
message, which, incidentally, remains unanswered.

Sincerely,
Robert Wall
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Those emails are *not* from Microsoft - but 'hoax' emails from other sources that have 'harvested' your email address from your news group posting. I'm afraid that the damage has already been done, but to cut this damage down you could try 'munging' the email address that you use in the news groups. Using a dedicated news reader, such as Outlook Express, will give you the options to delete these emails before you download them from your ISP's server.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Nobody here has any control over what spammers/viruses do with addresses
harvested from usenet posts. This has nothing to do with Microsoft, btw -
any usenet group has the same potential danger. Never post with a valid
address or put your address in the body of your message without "munging" it
(i.e., (e-mail address removed) )

The damage has been done on your existing address; you can create rules to
delete the messages, but your address is out there, and "they" have it.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Robert,

This is no one's fault, but yours. Virus and trojan files harvest e-mail
addresses from address books, web sites, newsgroups, temporary internet
files and a number of other locations. Using a valid e-mail address in any
public forum on the internet makes you vulnerable to this type of junk.
That's the primary reason that MS made it possible to post anonymously,
without a valid e-mail address. By including your e-mail address at the
end of the message, you've just made it that much worse.

 

[David]

To whom it may concern:

I have been relatively free from junk mail for the past
four years; that is, until I posted a message on this
newsgroup site last week.

Within hours, a flood of junk mail began to fill my Inbox,
nearly half of them Microsoft Security related. This is no
coincidence!

I politely ask you to remove me from all possible address
lists I have been added to as a result of posting my
message, which, incidentally, remains unanswered.

Sincerely,
Robert Wall
(e-mail address removed)

Prehaps before you go blaming other for YOUR mistakes, you should find
out how things work! YOU posted your E-mail address in a public forum,
Not us! Once YOU post your reall address here, YOU made it available to
automated "Harvester" programs that spammers use to scoure the net
looking for addresses to spam. And, Since they now have YOUR address,
removing any of your posts will not solve YOUR problem.

You really should post an apology to everyone in the newsgroups for
blaming us for YOUR stupidity

--

David

Programmers write "Help Files" for a reason. use them.

"Due to Viewer dicretion...
Graphic violence is advised"

http://www.HeroicStories.com/
http://www.thisistrue.com/

 

[Jeremy]

AMEN to that!! Love it when its there fault and they blame us. Especially
when he goes and really posts his email address the second time.

 

[David]

AMEN to that!! Love it when its there fault and they blame us.
Especially when he goes and really posts his email address the second
time.

Ot seems that we now live in an age where nobody does anything wrong and
it's always someone elses fault.

--

David

Programmers write "Help Files" for a reason. use them.

"Due to Viewer dicretion...
Graphic violence is advised"

http://www.HeroicStories.com/
http://www.thisistrue.com/