WinMail in Vista advises as you quote when its newsgroup feature is
first activated, I think. There is nothing about munging in Help, though,
and the newsgroup assistance feature does not reappear. So if one
doesn't bother reading it, then it's no longer available. Gmail has
very good spam filters, as you know, but I'm sure that Microsoft
won't point its users directly toward getting a Google email address.

"PA Bear" wrote in message ...
QP
[paraphrase] Be aware of the Harvesters and take care [/paraphrase]
/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
WHEN SETTING UP OUTLOOK EXPRESS TO USE THESE NEWSGROUPS,
you should NOT, I repeat NOT, NOT, NOT enter your real email address...