I just recently subscribed to a few sailboat/cruiser oriented news groups.

Within hours of joining and posting on this site I began receiving those
bogus emails from "Microsoft Support" asking me to run the attached "patch".
I'm not going to fall for THAT one, but it is annoying. The email I'm using
here is a "forwarding" email which I can delete at any time and I'm
filtering the email which doesn't conform to a legitimate reply to a group
post. Naturally I also have a virus scanner at work to delete them as they
come in. So the viruses are "harmless" but as I said, very annoying.

I'm curious as to a few things.

1) Why are attachements even allowed in a news group?
2) What do others do about a "reply" address in the group. Use a real
address and just put up with it and filter it out? Or is there some special
trick that experienced news groupies know?

Jeff