(Usenet Community users identity?

[Guest]

I read with interest Microsofts warning in its help files about spammers
Windows newsgroups posters user profiles.
I would like to access my user profile to make sure I haven't left my
address hanging out. How (where) do I look for that Is it as simply as
double clicking my user name?

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

I don't have a profile, so I can't answer your question. Why not get rid of
the Profile altogether and use a real newsreader to access the groups?
Outlook Express is a decent newsreader. Click here:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Then all you have to do is use a fake email address, like the rest of us.
Something like (e-mail address removed), so it can't possibly be someone else's
real email addy.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Gary;
You bring up a very good point some people miss.
It is important, if an address is munged, to be sure and not use a
legitimate domain.
Otherwise that domain will get the mail adding to their cost even if
the address is invalid.

 

[Curt Christianson]

For my first year here, I munged the part *before* the "@". Bet Yahoo
wanted to drop me as a client!

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HTH,
Curt

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| Gary;
| You bring up a very good point some people miss.
| It is important, if an address is munged, to be sure and not use a
| legitimate domain.
| Otherwise that domain will get the mail adding to their cost even if
| the address is invalid.
|
| --
| Jupiter Jones [MVP]
| http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
| http://www.dts-l.org
|
|
| "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
| | >I don't have a profile, so I can't answer your question. Why not get
| >rid of the Profile altogether and use a real newsreader to access the
| >groups? Outlook Express is a decent newsreader. Click here:
| > news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
| >
| > Then all you have to do is use a fake email address, like the rest
| > of us. Something like (e-mail address removed), so it can't possibly be
| > someone else's real email addy.
| >
| > --
| >
| > Gary S. Terhune
| > MS-MVP Shell/User
|