"Richard J." wrote in message
...
Anon wrote:
Since I have joined this News Group there has been a
massive increase
of Spam and viruses sent to my address. Is there
anything I can do to
prevent this or is it a matter of ignoring and deleting.

Does anyone else have this problem?

I had this problem too until I changed my address and
munged it [technical
term meaning disguised] so that if it was automatically
harvested, the spam
mail didn't go anywhere. It's useful for the address you
display to be
sufficiently close to your real one that you can put
simple instructions in
your sig to enable legitimate people to e-mail you, but
it's best to have a
fake domain name (the bit after the @) so that your ISP
doesn't suffer from
the spam mail. I suggest you avoid well-known additions
like NOSPAM or
DONTSPAM because some harvesting software can recognise
them. See my sig
and headers for an example.

In OE, do Tools/Accounts, select News and the account you
want to use,
click Properties/General and set the E-mail address to
whatever munged
address you want displayed in your posts.

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)


But I do advise you to re-check this "modified" address.
Since a change of ISP was forced on me OE does not remember
the address change beyond the current session. Invariably
I remember half way through doing a response like this one!
--
IanB


n.b. as I subscribe to two large newsgroups it may be
several days before I see a newsgroup response