Whoever chooses to use the name Unknown can do so in their settings, and
even change the return email address if they want. Looking at the properties
of the message in a newsreader will often show things like what newsreader
is used, and even the IP of some posts.
That aside, the 'unknown' posts that are blank are from IP addresses that
have been trolling, and generally breaking the 'Communities' guidelines, and
MS has moderation in place to remove those. The idiots who do that sort of
trolling do show up in newsreaders, since Usenet 'slurps' the news feed from
msnews.microsoft.com
The whole issue was solved last week when the MS Answers pages went online,
and the Communities are now phased out.
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"Tonyo UK" <TonyoUK@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2B32F670-1A0B-4EA9-8EA1-4AA83035C49E@xxxxxx
Quote:
> I have asked this question before. The responses when I originally raised
> the
> point did not cover the situation I commonly see in this newsgroup.
>
> The problem is this:
>
> I open a thread and the person posting is "Unknown". Not only that, but
> the
> posted message has been deleted. Now I understand how that can be the case
> if
> the message is unlawful or immoral, or just disgusting. But frequently,
> the
> message below "Unknown" in the same thread is from some person who is a
> genuine responder. Rarely is the original posting included. Usually the
> person responding starts with "I have the same problem ... " and we never
> see
> what the original problem was.
>
> Can someone more knowledgeable than me plesase enlighten me as to what is
> going on here?