Kerryp1131938 wrote:
I have just purchased a Gateway computer and I can't get any e-mail
to my charter cable network. My E-mail address on Charter is
. Can someone help me please. My phone
number is 810-629-7933. Thank you. Kerry
Kerryp,
I Hope the link you were provided helps. I'd like to offer some unsolicited
but friendly and important advice, though:
Don't be paranoid about this, but you should never list your e-mail address
and/or any other personal information on the internet, especially in
newsgroups! I'll explain a little bit of why:
1. Spammers have automatic scanners that go through newsgroups looking for
e-mail addresses. Your e-mail address shows up in the body of your post and
also in the sourcecode, which you don't see but a robot can find and copy
for the spammer. Next, the spammer takes all the addresses it collects and
puts them together into a list, and most likely that spammer will start
spamming with that list, AND also sell the list to other spammers. So, by
putting your address out one time, you could end up on tens or even hundreds
of spammer lists in a short period of time.
I can tell from the post's headers that you're using IE6 and OE6. So, in
Outlook Express, click Tools; Accounts, and highlight the newsgroup name.
Then click Propterties and where it wants your e-mail address, change that
to something like
or lid.
Your email address is NOT needed for most newsgroup use.
Here's the part to not get paranoid about; just consider it informative:
I have your phone number now. That means that within a few moments, if I
wished, I could also have your street address, city, state and zip, along
with the name of the person that pays for that phone number. I would then
be about 80% of the way thru being able to impersonate you to get credit
cards and all sorts of things in your name. If I were ever able to trick
you into giving me your social security number, I'd be home free w/r respect
to stealing your identity! Before you say you'd never give out your ssn, be
careful; there ARE places it might be looked up, depending on a lot of
things, for a cost of about $20. AS it is, I could likely get a driver's
license in your name.
I'm not going into more details of the "how" because I don't think
anything that's not common knowledge should be posted; no sense helping the
bottom-feeders.
If you'd like some links to verify/confirm any of this information, let us
know and I can post a few for you. I'm too pressed for time at the moment
to look them up.
Try looking up "safe hex" on your fav search engine if you want to get
started on your own.
BTW, to post an email on the 'net, you should phrase it like:
kerryxxxx AT charter DOT net. Most spammer tools will pass right over it
and not realize it's an email address. Anyone who reads it though knows to
replace the words with the proper characters @ and . .
HTH
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