Does posting here expose you to spamming, spoofing &

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having tons of viruses sent to your email address?

I say the answer is YES.

There must be a bunch of idiots out there farming these
communities for addresses to send the latest virus to, to
possibly spoof the email address & to just generally add
to their spam list.

My advice is do not use your real email address here.
 
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Steve Easton

To do that means they win.
The day I'm paranoid about posting with my real
e-mail address is the day I donate my computer to
goodwill.
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

If possible set up a specific "real" email address for posting on public
newsgroups.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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Stefan B Rusynko

Or get a hotmail account just for the newsgroups, turn on aggressive junk mail filtering and don't use it except in the newsgroups




| If possible set up a specific "real" email address for posting on public
| newsgroups.
|
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| ==============================================
| Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
|
| FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
| MS KB Quick Links, etc.
| ==============================================
| To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
| http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
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| | > having tons of viruses sent to your email address?
| >
| > I say the answer is YES.
| >
| > There must be a bunch of idiots out there farming these
| > communities for addresses to send the latest virus to, to
| > possibly spoof the email address & to just generally add
| > to their spam list.
| >
| > My advice is do not use your real email address here.
|
|
 
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Kevin Spencer

I don't like people to contact me privately anyway for the most part. So I
DO spoof my email address. Any person can strip out the obvious
SPAM-proofing if they need to. But computer programs aren't smart enough to
do it automatically.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
http://www.takempis.com
Big Things are made up of
Lots of Little Things.
 
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