Bonnie
You are better advised to mung after the @ because that will bounce back the
spammed email at the spammer's ISP as an unknown address: if you mung before
the @ then the email will go all the way across the Internet to the
recipient's ISP before it is bounced as address not known. This clogs up the
Internet. It will also increase the possibility of the spammer's ISP
noticing the increase in bounced emails and will kill the account.
--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/
Mike
Don't know what type of application you are running (Outlook Express,
Outlook, etc.) but you will generally find the account setup in the Tools
pull down menu.
Tools > Accounts > News > Properties
That's where you will see the email address that is being used when you
visit these newsgroups. That's the one you need to change. Using you
regular email address as an example, the one you enter for newsgroups could
be:
(e-mail address removed)
Regular people can pick out your actual address if they want to write you,
but the computers that just gather bulk addresses can't separate that out.
Once you change your address, give it a week or so for the spam to diminish.
By the way, don't ever open an attachment from the spam emails that look
like they are coming from Microsoft. That's where the virus is hiding.
Let me know if this helps ----------------- Bonnie
