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

I use a bogus "return address:" @nospam.com.

Spammers harvest email addresses from website discussion groups and
newsgroups. And as you've discovered, they get 'em very quickly. If you
want your real email address known, put it in the body of your post,
never in the header.

Peggie

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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

I use a bogus "return address:" @nospam.com.

Spammers harvest email addresses from website discussion groups and
newsgroups. And as you've discovered, they get 'em very quickly. If you
want your real email address known, put it in the body of your post,
never in the header.

Peggie

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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

If you want your real email address known, put it in the body of
your post, never in the header.

Not a good idea either, some bots scan the body for addresses, too.
If *absolutely necessary* to post a valid email address, put some
gobbldeygook text into it, and state which part of the address needs
to be deleted to make it valid.

If you want your real email address known, put it in the body of
your post, never in the header.

Not a good idea either, some bots scan the body for addresses, too.
If *absolutely necessary* to post a valid email address, put some
gobbldeygook text into it, and state which part of the address needs
to be deleted to make it valid.

On 2 Nov 2003 19:43:19 -0800, (Mark) wrote:

If you want your real email address known, put it in the body of
your post, never in the header.

Not a good idea either, some bots scan the body for addresses, too.
If *absolutely necessary* to post a valid email address, put some
gobbldeygook text into it, and state which part of the address needs
to be deleted to make it valid.

I have been posting with my real addy for more than a decade. I
average about three SPAM a day. Every month or so I delete them.

I also post under my real name. I have a fake name picked out. Dances
With Wolves was taken so I settled on Sleeps With Kitties.

Casady