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I am using OE6 for posting messages to news groups. Although my e-mail
address is 'modified' a news group member was able to send me a message to
my e-mail address anyway (a response to one of my posts which should have
gone to the appropriate news group).
I did not download this response and deleted it immediately.

Is there some free software available to tighten/patch my system more
securely?
Many thanks in advance,
 
Kayman wrote
I am using OE6 for posting messages to news groups. Although my e-mail
address is 'modified' a news group member was able to send me a message to
my e-mail address anyway (a response to one of my posts which should have
gone to the appropriate news group).
I did not download this response and deleted it immediately.

Is there some free software available to tighten/patch my system more
securely?
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The fix is between your ears.
 
Kayman said:
I am using OE6 for posting messages to news groups. Although my
e-mail address is 'modified' a news group member was able to send me
a message to my e-mail address anyway (a response to one of my posts
which should have gone to the appropriate news group).
I did not download this response and deleted it immediately.

Is there some free software available to tighten/patch my system more
securely?
Many thanks in advance,
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(e-mail address removed)

As Panda says, your address is modified. A normal Reply All response
will not reach you personally.

But I would be able to contact you by removing the relevant parts. Some
users of NG's do this with their address intentionally, so that it
requires a slight effort to work it out and you can be contacted if need
be. (As I do).
If you want all responses in the NG only then use an address that
doesn't exist at all.

(e-mail address removed) Just make sure the domain is NOT a valid domain - the
bit after the @.

For instance (e-mail address removed) would send all responses to Hotmail,
whereas (e-mail address removed) would not.

Obviously posters should use Reply Group anyway.
 
It could be that the person responding to your query just wanted to be extra
helpful and reply to you direct. If it was a genuine answer to a genuine
question this kind of attitude may not encourage people to help you in the
future.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions
 
The only valid part is the ISP. The name (khkay) is wrong, therefore my
e-mail address is modified. Panda suggests that my e-mail address is *not*
modified.
Regards,
khkay (not my real name).
 
Queries raised in a news group are generally answered back to the news group
which may benefit others. This point is re-enforced by many other news group
experts/moderators/MVP's.
With all good wishes,
 
It's amazing how many people will contact me directly with a note of thanks,
even though my email address is slightly altered. I want to make it
difficult for bots to send me email, not people.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
As Kath said, munge everything AFTER the @ sign. Never leave the ISP
correct. (e-mail address removed) would work fine.
 
OK then, another scenario which may help you figure it out.

With my ISP I have an email address in the form of
(e-mail address removed)

But...you can type anything you want to before the @ and it will reach
me.

So - (e-mail address removed) will get your mail into the same inbox
as -

(e-mail address removed)

(As an aside this is where users get confused about email for the rest
of the family all coming into one Inbox - precisely because the email
address is in fact all the same - they are alias's for the one address.)

If this is the case with you, then all they have to do is figure out the
bit after the @ and it doesn't matter what you put before the @

And just to see if I am on the right track, I will email you personally!

Hope this helps. Let us know.

Kath
 
Hi Richard,
The e-mail received was not a thank-you message.
Any help received from the experts here will always receive a huge thanks
via the news group (publically) for others read as well.
My requests/responses are **always** civil & polite.
As a frequent reader of news group I observed that some of the experts
**invite** people to contact them directly. In this environment **invite**
is the key word!
My concern is security related and I am afraid that you and Richard Urban
are just missing the point. Oh well.
 
Thanks Bruce,
I'll be guided accordingly.
Coming back to my original query, is there an application available which
can check/test my system for adequate/appropriate 'tightness'/security?
Regards,
 
Which operation are your security concerns with? I can tell as of now that
you haven't changed your address. And I can tell you are posting from Tokyo,
(or close by). There is not very much more you can do for OE than what has
been suggested so far.
 
Well, I am too inexperienced to which type of security issue applies to
this.
I am looking for some kind of tool which would highlight vulnerabilities
with respect to internet connections in my system and then could take
appropriate action (patching??).
I came across this URL
http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/web-security-services.html and was
wondering if your are familiar with website.
Thanks again for response.
Kindest regards,
 
Now this is an issue that has nothing to do with Outlook Express. Assuming
you are using Internet Explorer, then now is the time to post elsewhere.

For Internet Explorer questions not pertaining to Outlook Express, please
post to one of the following:

IE6 Specific Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser

IE General newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
 
Kayman said:
The only valid part is the ISP. The name (khkay) is wrong, therefore my
e-mail address is modified. Panda suggests that my e-mail address is *not*
modified.
Regards,
khkay (not my real name).
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Do you have the reply to address filled in with your real email address?
Regards
Lee

Inviato da X-Privat.Org - Registrazione gratuita http://www.x-privat.org/join.php
 
You did indeed! Thanks for giving me sleepless nights and stomach ulcers
:-). Now what? I guess I have to start from the scratch, change the ISP and
ask for a dynamic IP address?
Until now (and since reading Vanguard's dossier), I did not realize that it
was possible undoing 'modified' e-mail addresses. I thought if a computer
program (I think it's called *Sven*) is not able to do so nobody else would.
Obviously I am mistaken! Oh well, time to move on and make appropriate
changes which will include a *dedicated* e-mail address just for newsgroups.
Cheers,
 
Kayman - 29.05.2006 02:29 :
Hi Richard,
The e-mail received was not a thank-you message.
Any help received from the experts here will always receive a huge thanks
via the news group ...
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indeed, and more than often with unnecessary fullquotings (and
crossposted?) only saying the one word/line "thanks" :-(

These two misbehaviors are the real plague in usenet beside flamewares
and OT's. Some people never learn (and would have reposted with
fullquoting).
 
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