Vista - Spam Mail starts arriving soon after posting into this discussion

I'm using a Yahoo! account which I have been very careful and have not gone
into any websites or submitted this email account to anywhere which could
lead to me getting spam mail. I'm also anal about spyware and stuff and my PC
is very well protected against all that and I also make sure to update my
spyware definitions and anti-virus definitions on a daily basis. So far so
good for the last 4 years of using this email account. The only spam I
receive is from 2-3 sites that regularly send stuff which I'm still unable to
get rid of.

However, a month ago, I started posting in this discussion group. Since
then, I've been receiving TONS of spam mail. I thought this might be a
coincidence so I performed a little test...

I created another email address in Yahoo! and did nothing for a week. Then I
did a post in this discussion group again. Immediately after that, TONS of
spam mail have been flooding into that account, confirming my suspicions.

I am not an idiot and have been very careful NOT to check those checkboxes
that allow Microsoft or its partners to send me solicitation email whenever I
login, change my profile, or post something here. Yet, the spam comes in.

Has anyone experienced this same thing?
Don't you think Microsoft or the administrators of this forum ought to do
something about this?

You don't need an email account to post here, just a newsreader client. The
server requires no sign-in or authorization.

Just don't access this newsgroup via the web interface.

"sy" <sy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3DCF5BD2-2040-4530-97D4-6339DA49EB2A@microsoft.com...
> I'm using a Yahoo! account which I have been very careful and have not
> gone
> into any websites or submitted this email account to anywhere which could
> lead to me getting spam mail. I'm also anal about spyware and stuff and my
> PC
> is very well protected against all that and I also make sure to update my
> spyware definitions and anti-virus definitions on a daily basis. So far so
> good for the last 4 years of using this email account. The only spam I
> receive is from 2-3 sites that regularly send stuff which I'm still unable
> to
> get rid of.
>
> However, a month ago, I started posting in this discussion group. Since
> then, I've been receiving TONS of spam mail. I thought this might be a
> coincidence so I performed a little test...
>
> I created another email address in Yahoo! and did nothing for a week. Then
> I
> did a post in this discussion group again. Immediately after that, TONS of
> spam mail have been flooding into that account, confirming my suspicions.
>
> I am not an idiot and have been very careful NOT to check those checkboxes
> that allow Microsoft or its partners to send me solicitation email
> whenever I
> login, change my profile, or post something here. Yet, the spam comes in.
>
> Has anyone experienced this same thing?
> Don't you think Microsoft or the administrators of this forum ought to do
> something about this?

You need to set up a "fake" email address for these newsgroups....
peter
"sy" <sy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3DCF5BD2-2040-4530-97D4-6339DA49EB2A@microsoft.com...
> I'm using a Yahoo! account which I have been very careful and have not
> gone
> into any websites or submitted this email account to anywhere which could
> lead to me getting spam mail. I'm also anal about spyware and stuff and my
> PC
> is very well protected against all that and I also make sure to update my
> spyware definitions and anti-virus definitions on a daily basis. So far so
> good for the last 4 years of using this email account. The only spam I
> receive is from 2-3 sites that regularly send stuff which I'm still unable
> to
> get rid of.
>
> However, a month ago, I started posting in this discussion group. Since
> then, I've been receiving TONS of spam mail. I thought this might be a
> coincidence so I performed a little test...
>
> I created another email address in Yahoo! and did nothing for a week. Then
> I
> did a post in this discussion group again. Immediately after that, TONS of
> spam mail have been flooding into that account, confirming my suspicions.
>
> I am not an idiot and have been very careful NOT to check those checkboxes
> that allow Microsoft or its partners to send me solicitation email
> whenever I
> login, change my profile, or post something here. Yet, the spam comes in.
>
> Has anyone experienced this same thing?
> Don't you think Microsoft or the administrators of this forum ought to do
> something about this?

sy

If you are getting Spam as you claim from posting here then it is not from these MS newsgroups. Your email address is being picked up from where you are posting like Yahoo or IE. If you look at your headers here when you post to these newsgroups you will see that you are posting here via the CDO(Web Interface ) and nowhere in your properties does it show your email or actual IP address. It will show most probably in the app you are using to post with and it is being picked up from there. But not from here. Check Yahoo or your IE or whatever you use and how it is set up for posting. That is where you should be hiding it correctly.

--
Peter

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"sy" <sy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3DCF5BD2-2040-4530-97D4-6339DA49EB2A@microsoft.com...
> I'm using a Yahoo! account which I have been very careful and have not gone
> into any websites or submitted this email account to anywhere which could
> lead to me getting spam mail. I'm also anal about spyware and stuff and my PC
> is very well protected against all that and I also make sure to update my
> spyware definitions and anti-virus definitions on a daily basis. So far so
> good for the last 4 years of using this email account. The only spam I
> receive is from 2-3 sites that regularly send stuff which I'm still unable to
> get rid of.
>
> However, a month ago, I started posting in this discussion group. Since
> then, I've been receiving TONS of spam mail. I thought this might be a
> coincidence so I performed a little test...
>
> I created another email address in Yahoo! and did nothing for a week. Then I
> did a post in this discussion group again. Immediately after that, TONS of
> spam mail have been flooding into that account, confirming my suspicions.
>
> I am not an idiot and have been very careful NOT to check those checkboxes
> that allow Microsoft or its partners to send me solicitation email whenever I
> login, change my profile, or post something here. Yet, the spam comes in.
>
> Has anyone experienced this same thing?
> Don't you think Microsoft or the administrators of this forum ought to do
> something about this?

I access via the website, and I am quite happy doing it this way

"sy" wrote:

> I'm using a Yahoo! account which I have been very careful and have not gone
> into any websites or submitted this email account to anywhere which could
> lead to me getting spam mail. I'm also anal about spyware and stuff and my PC
> is very well protected against all that and I also make sure to update my
> spyware definitions and anti-virus definitions on a daily basis. So far so
> good for the last 4 years of using this email account. The only spam I
> receive is from 2-3 sites that regularly send stuff which I'm still unable to
> get rid of.
>
> However, a month ago, I started posting in this discussion group. Since
> then, I've been receiving TONS of spam mail. I thought this might be a
> coincidence so I performed a little test...
>
> I created another email address in Yahoo! and did nothing for a week. Then I
> did a post in this discussion group again. Immediately after that, TONS of
> spam mail have been flooding into that account, confirming my suspicions.
>
> I am not an idiot and have been very careful NOT to check those checkboxes
> that allow Microsoft or its partners to send me solicitation email whenever I
> login, change my profile, or post something here. Yet, the spam comes in.
>
> Has anyone experienced this same thing?
> Don't you think Microsoft or the administrators of this forum ought to do
> something about this?

Mick wrote:
> I access via the website, and I am quite happy doing it this way
>
> "sy" wrote:
>
>> I'm using a Yahoo! account which I have been very careful and have not gone
>> into any websites or submitted this email account to anywhere which could
>> lead to me getting spam mail. I'm also anal about spyware and stuff and my PC
>> is very well protected against all that and I also make sure to update my
>> spyware definitions and anti-virus definitions on a daily basis. So far so
>> good for the last 4 years of using this email account. The only spam I
>> receive is from 2-3 sites that regularly send stuff which I'm still unable to
>> get rid of.
>>
>> However, a month ago, I started posting in this discussion group. Since
>> then, I've been receiving TONS of spam mail. I thought this might be a
>> coincidence so I performed a little test...
>>
>> I created another email address in Yahoo! and did nothing for a week. Then I
>> did a post in this discussion group again. Immediately after that, TONS of
>> spam mail have been flooding into that account, confirming my suspicions.
>>
>> I am not an idiot and have been very careful NOT to check those checkboxes
>> that allow Microsoft or its partners to send me solicitation email whenever I
>> login, change my profile, or post something here. Yet, the spam comes in.
>>
>> Has anyone experienced this same thing?
>> Don't you think Microsoft or the administrators of this forum ought to do
>> something about this?

To each there own I find the web interface slow, clunky, and hard to
search. I only use web forums when there is no other option.

gls858