e Mails to this forum - not posts

[Wayne-I-M]

When you see an email -
eg
Dear John you're sacked, goodbye
or
Dear Mary you're divorced, goodbye

These have almost certainly not been posted here on purpose. How do they
end up here?

If you send an e mail to [email protected] how does it get to a forum?

 

[John W. Vinson]

When you see an email -
eg
Dear John you're sacked, goodbye
or
Dear Mary you're divorced, goodbye

These have almost certainly not been posted here on purpose. How do they
end up here?

If you send an e mail to [email protected] how does it get to a forum?

I'm planning to install Vista and Windows Mail (on a second machine) and see
if I can find out. It really appears that WM has some setting that must be
easy for an inexperienced person to select that throws it to News... and that
it defaults to microsoft.public.access, probably because it's the first
alphabetical newsgroup in the Microsoft public heirarchy.

It's ONLY Windows Mail users that seem to do this; I think it's either a bug
or a misfeature of WM.

 

[Wayne-I-M]

I have just another vista machine (it's got expression studio on it at the
moment) but I will load office on to it to see what happens - not sure if the
message are coming from outlook though

Have just googled to try and find out how many e mails are sent every day -
lots of different answers - but it's a lot ?? With this much data whizzing
around I think some will go wrong anyway

Or

Maybe some people are getting it wrong.

But the chance of sending out something really important (and confidential)
to a forum by mistake is something to think about

 

[John W. Vinson]

I have just another vista machine (it's got expression studio on it at the
moment) but I will load office on to it to see what happens - not sure if the
message are coming from outlook though

Neither Office nor Outlook have anything to do with the matter. It appears
that it's *Windows Mail* - not Outlook, not Outlook Express - that is at
fault.

Have just googled to try and find out how many e mails are sent every day -
lots of different answers - but it's a lot ?? With this much data whizzing
around I think some will go wrong anyway

Or

Maybe some people are getting it wrong.

I'm sure they are, and it's probably some mistake that a sophisticated user
wouldn't make; but my guess is that there is SOMETHING about WM that naive
users can fairly easily stumble over; and that it's set up so that if you post
a News item without specifying a target newsgroup, it ends up here.

But the chance of sending out something really important (and confidential)
to a forum by mistake is something to think about

Phone numbers and clear email addresses are already a problem, and yes, I can
easily imagine someone inadvertantly posting something they'd really really
rather keep private.

 

[David W. Fenton]

It's ONLY Windows Mail users that seem to do this; I think it's
either a bug or a misfeature of WM.

Any program that tries to be both an email client and a Usenet
client is badly designed, in my opinion. The similarities between
the two functions are really quite superficial, it seems to me, and
that's why such applications cause so many problems (and are always
inferior in comparison to applications that are dedicated to one or
the other of the two tasks).