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Getting spam messages that fills my mailbox

Sorry for starting a new thread on this existing topic, but for some reason Google won't let me reply to the existing thread.

I've also run into the same issue. I.e. the "W32.Swen.A@mm" virus filling my Yahoo e-mail box within hours of me emptying it. I've even had some success redirecting a majority of them to my trash, but that really doesn't help because that fills up within hours as well.

I've actually had some correspondence with them over this. Their reply was predictable, "just empty your trash regularly"... but I replied and again requested that they detect the virus and block it entirely.

I'm so glad I keep my real E-mail address off the usenet. But, I still have a problem, because I can't find any news servers which will allow me to have a fictitious E-mail address. I even tried

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which another person here recommended. But, it requires me to enter a valid E-mail to post a message.

Any more suggestions, besides abandoning usenet?

Joe

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Smiley
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Check out "disposable" email addresses from spamgourmet--

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Reply to
Michael

it's not necessarily a usenet problem, it might be the way you have your account set up in your reader.

i changed my email address just for this post.

kenneth b

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kenneth b

You are posting from Google. It has a limited timeframe for responding to a post dierctly. After X days ... and Google is really a search engine for the posts it archived anyway,not a Usenet sercer/service. That's a minor fringe ..

Google requires a valid Email address for your account and posts using it. AFAIK Google only uses this address once ... for it's confirmation response Email when you get an account. After that it does not care BUT will use that info to post with and you need it to log into your Google account. But it can be a throw-away account *for you*, only used for that purpose and full of SPAM otherwise.

Then add a munged (real) Email address to your posts as a manual comment ...

As you are actually using MCI/uu.net why not ask how others using the same are getting Usenet? Hard to believe that they don't have their own service/servers ...

HTH

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Cliff Huprich

Spambots will often figure out your munged email. Just go to hotmail, setup an account. Use that account to setup your google groups account and then never bother with that hotmail account again.

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Devlin

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