On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:09:50 -0700, N. Miller wrote:

Your NNTP posting host says you are a Comcast customer.

Which made me think of your email address. Spammers harvest from web
sites, more than from Usenet posts; but these Microsoft groups seem to
attract viral harvesters. You are actually showing a valid Comcast email
address in your posts. Use your MS Outlook Express message properties to
look at the full headers of this post.

In your news accounts configuration in MSOE you can change your email
address. This will be independent of your email accounts, so the change
is only local. I own the domain in my posting email address, and created
the one I use here. In other groups I am inclined to use an email
address with the .invalid Top Level Domain (TLD). It would look
something like this: . It is a proper domain,
reserved for live Internet testing, but commonly used in this fashion.
Like my "msnews", (which doesn't point to a email server), the
".invalid" TLD does not point to any email servers.

If you don't mind getting the occasional off group email, you can put an
email address in the "Reply-To:" field, as I do, but it should be a
disposable email address. Because I do own my own domain I can create
disposable aliases. Before setting up my own mail server, I was using
SneakEmail accounts, which are disposable, as well:

http://www.sneakemail.com/

But you don't really _need_ a working email address for new group
posting. If you never expect the audience to reply to you privately,
just using an RFC 2822 compliant email address is sufficient. Having a
user name ("Don't_spam"), and the email symbol ("@"), and a domain name
("me.invalid") makes the email address RFC 2822 compliant, and broken at
the same time.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum