QP
About e-mail addresses and privacy
It is highly likely that you will receive unwanted messages (spam) in your
regular e-mail account if you use your actual, unmodified e-mail address as
your display e-mail address in a discussion group. Note that your display
e-mail address is different from your notification e-mail address. Your
notification e-mail address must be a real e-mail address in order for you
to be notified; it is stored privately by Microsoft. It is not visible to
the Community. However, your display e-mail address is public and visible to
everyone in the Community.

People who send unwanted bulk e-mail (spammers) regularly gather e-mail
addresses from discussion groups. To help prevent spam in your regular
e-mail account, the default display e-mail address when you post a message
in a discussion group is . The
following are the display e-mail address options you can choose from:

Use a false display e-mail address we generate for you
The default address will be used
when you post a message if you do not change your display e-mail address.

Use a modified display e-mail address
Use a different version of your e-mail address that others will understand,
but that spam tools can't automatically pick up. For example, if an actual
e-mail address were , we would recommend modifying it to
one of the following:

.(donotspam)



_SPAM

In this case, the spam tools will send mail to an invalid e-mail address,
and others will know to exclude the invalid information when they send you
e-mail.

Use a secondary e-mail account
Set up or use an e-mail account, such as a Hotmail account, that is separate
from your primary account for posting to discussion groups.
/QP
Source:
http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...mailAndPrivacy

The above is admittedly from an MS page about using the web-based newsreader
and the same caveats /should/ be prominent on pages about using NNTP
newsreaders (e.g.,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...ps/howto.mspx).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

Dan wrote:
snip
Let me say that I have found this forum EXTREMELY helpful for solving
problems. Bruce Hagen, if he is still around, did an excellent job
assisting
me. He also alerted me to the fact that my real email address was
available
to all on this forum, BECAUSE MICROSOFT FAILS TO WARN & INSTRUCT USERS
WHEN
SETTING UP OUTLOOK EXPRESS TO USE THESE NEWSGROUPS, that you should NOT, I
repeat NOT, NOT, NOT enter your real email address...