Guest nelsh Posted August 3, 2007 Posted August 3, 2007 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?
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 3, 2007 Posted August 3, 2007 Re: (Usenet Community users identity? 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: http://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 nobody@nowhere.not, so it can't possibly be someone else's real email addy. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "nelsh" <nelsh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A5EC44AB-27F6-418B-87BF-93E81FC112F4@microsoft.com... >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?
Guest Jupiter Jones [MVP] Posted August 3, 2007 Posted August 3, 2007 Re: (Usenet Community users identity? 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 news:e$lCIYf1HHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >I don't have a profile, so I can't answer your question. Why not get >rid of the Profile altogether and use a real newsreader to access the >groups? Outlook Express is a decent newsreader. Click here: > http://news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general > > Then all you have to do is use a fake email address, like the rest > of us. Something like nobody@nowhere.not, so it can't possibly be > someone else's real email addy. > > -- > > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/User
Guest Curt Christianson Posted August 3, 2007 Posted August 3, 2007 Re: (Usenet Community users identity? For my first year here, I munged the part *before* the "@". Bet Yahoo wanted to drop me as a client! -- HTH, Curt Windows Support Center http://www.aumha.org Practically Nerded,... http://dundats.mvps.org/Index.htm "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message news:%23HVikDg1HHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... | Gary; | You bring up a very good point some people miss. | It is important, if an address is munged, to be sure and not use a | legitimate domain. | Otherwise that domain will get the mail adding to their cost even if | the address is invalid. | | -- | Jupiter Jones [MVP] | http://www3.telus.net/dandemar | http://www.dts-l.org | | | "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message | news:e$lCIYf1HHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... | >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: | > http://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 nobody@nowhere.not, so it can't possibly be | > someone else's real email addy. | > | > -- | > | > Gary S. Terhune | > MS-MVP Shell/User |
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