Dummy email address

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Tom

I've noticed that many of you use altered email addresses in replying to
messages while my full address appears. What's the procedure for getting
one myself? I thought that once you replied to a message that your full
address was added automatically whether you liked it or not. Thank you.

Tom
 
Greetings --

In OE, click Tools > Accounts > Mail tab > Highlight the account >
Properties > General tab, and enter whatever bogus email and reply
addresses you like.

Bruce Chambers

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You don't need to "get one" exactly, just create one yourself...

If using Outlook Express go to...

Tools -> Accounts -> News tab -> properties button on the right -> general
tab.

Change email address by adding some text (typically in capitals). You could
also add instructions to your signature telling people how to remove the
anti spam text.

Note: Adding "REMOVEME" or "NOSPAM" may not be a good idea days as it
wouldn't be too hard to write a program to look for those common tricks and
remove them automatically. Even the use of capitals might be a give away for
the spammers, but that's what most people do.
 
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Tom said:
I've noticed that many of you use altered email addresses in replying
to messages while my full address appears. What's the procedure for
getting one myself?
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No, you don't "get" one. You just make one up.

I thought that once you replied to a message
that your full address was added automatically whether you liked it
or not. Thank you.
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You tell your newsreader what you want it to show as your return
address. If you tell it the real one, it will use the real one.
If you tell it a fake one, it will use the fake one.

How to tell it depends on what newsreader you're using. In
Outlook Express, which you are using, go to Tools | Accounts,
double-click on your news account and on the General tab, change
what you have in E-mail address.

This is good to do, since it stops spammers from harvesting your
address in newsgroups, and because some viruses are E-mailed to
newsgroup participants. I also prefer that I don't get direct
replies to my newsgroup posts, so I don't give out my real
address, but if you want to, you can specify how to reconstruct
your real address as part of your signature.
 
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