Just a quick note to add: it does appear that MS is concerned about spammers
collecting email addresses over networks that they own, but only if they can
collect money from it. They claim the spammers cost them goodwill and they
deserve to be compensated for that loss when it concerns networks they own.
You can read about it he
http://sympatico-msn-ca.com.com/Judg...ubj=ns_6144548 I
guess its just too bad they will be unlikely to spend their judgement money
on fixing the MSnewsgroup email address harvesting over "their" network
here. But they are right, it certainly has created lost goodwill from me!
And I guess we better hope that this guy in UK doesn't appeal on grounds
that if MS believes so strongly in their case, how come they continue to
allow the harvesting here?! Just a point to ponder... Hmmm!
And PA Bear, what you mentioned earlier about sitting down with the OE team
way back, and finding none of them had even used or seen a newsgroup, nor
used OE as a newsreader... that does sound ridiculous, but I have no doubt
its true... just lends more to my argument about negligence, sounds like a
total lack of diligence on their part...hahahaha
Peace all!
Dan
"Dan" wrote in message
...
This is not a request for assistance, but rather a warning for newer users
here, to hopefully prevent you from the same frustrations I have
experienced as a result of using this forum.
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!!!!!!!!!!
When I set this up, it required me to enter an email address in order to
post here. Nothing warned me that my REAL address would be easily
accessible to all here, NOR did instruct me that I could enter a false
address to thwart the spammers when entering the REQUIRED email address
during sign-up!!!!
Had Microsoft offered this very simple instruction in the beginning, I am
absolutely convinced that I would have NEVER, EVER, received ANY SPAM!!!!
This is on their network afterall, and their NEGLIGENCE to provide this
security information has caused me a great deal of headache, that now
seems will NEVER go away, making me wish I had never, ever used this
newsgroup in the first place!!!
Thank you to Bruce Hagen for recognizing and informing me about this
dangerous security breach. It would have been better if Microsoft were
RESPONSIBLE enough to have given this information in the newsgroup setup
instructions and process!!!!!
The RESULT of this NEGLIGENCE on Microsoft's part is that after just a few
postings before Bruce's alert to me, I am now bombarded on this email
account daily for the last 9 MONTHS by spammers, and ONLY on this account.
I have NEVER received spam on ANY OTHER email account I have. Many of
these spams have been VIRUSES & WORMS!!!! And luckily my Anti-Virus
scanners have been able to remove them. Although I immediately followed
Bruce's intructions to change the email address displayed, it was too
late, and I don't think there is anyway for me to remove the previous
postings with the real email address. So Microsoft has left me with breach
in security which it seems I can NEVER fix, unless I CANCEL this email
account. That is really SAD!!! and worse yet, it was TOTALLY
UNNECESSARY!!!
If Microsoft were honestly SERIOUS about network security, they would
alert ALL people to this security breach before allowing them to use these
newsgroups!!
I don't even want to imagine how much worse this would be if Bruce had not
alerted me to this issue at all, but I hope this message will possibly
assist others in avoiding the headaches I have had.
And Thanks A Lot Microsoft... I thought your mission was to provide
solutions to the masses, not to cause extra problems... but what do I know
anyway.
Best of Luck to All,
Sincerely,
D.