My post on this Newsgroup - followed by a lot of spam in my email-account

[Peter]

Hi all,

is it possible to remove my post at the MSN-
Forum "microsoft.public.excel.setup" from Dec, 15th 2003,
10:56 am, title: "Open Excel in Internet Explorer".

I didn't read the security warning and posted my
important email-address to the forum.

Now i get around 20 spam mails per day, which cannot be
filtered by the spam-filter of my mail-provider.

Is it possible to remove that one post??

Thanks

Peter

 

[Nick Hodge]

Peter

Unfortunately, this is unlikely. In any case within minutes/hours, many
indexing sites that mirror these groups, eg google, etc. will have copied it

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)

 

[David McRitchie]

Hi Peter,
Time to learn about mail filtering. The primary place for mail
filtering is probably with your ISP so check your ISP's web site.

As far as munging a valid email address, I expect the spammer's
programming is a lot better at finding your real email address than
we are.

Some rules I use in Outlook Express, Hotmail.com, msn.com, and
in MailWasher software can be found in links within
Outlook Express 5.0 through 6.0
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/oe6.htm

There are probably about 900 people currently posting as
Peter <[email protected]>
and that will increase with time. I would suggest that if you are
going to use (e-mail address removed) that you
include some very unique information so that you can at least
find your postings in the future. I'm afraid that "David McRitchie"
is not unique there have been others, but not in the Excel newsgroups.
I will continue to use my real name and email .

 

[Norman Harker]

Hi Peter!

We're all suffering a lot at present. It appears like a new wave.

I've had 47 in the last 13 hours. Well over 100 yesterday.

If only people would install the latest updates / patches.

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Regards
Norman Harker MVP (Excel)
Sydney, Australia
(e-mail address removed)
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