Hello. I used a summy email address when I signed up for the Microsoft
newsgroups. I did that on the suggestion of someone, who asserted that my
email could be harvested by spamers. My question is: Is there any advantage
to using a real email address? The only one I can think of is for receiving
emails directly as opposed to a person's responding to the group. If I were
to use my true email address, would there be any way to prevent it from
being harvested by spammers?

Thank you.

Trust me: You do not want to receive emails directly from someone reading
this or any other newsgroup!
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

John wrote:
> Hello. I used a summy email address when I signed up for the Microsoft
> newsgroups. I did that on the suggestion of someone, who asserted that my
> email could be harvested by spamers. My question is: Is there any
> advantage
> to using a real email address? The only one I can think of is for
> receiving
> emails directly as opposed to a person's responding to the group. If I
> were
> to use my true email address, would there be any way to prevent it from
> being harvested by spammers?
>
> Thank you.

OK, I get it now. I was misreading a passage that I pulled of the web.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Trust me: You do not want to receive emails directly from someone reading
> this or any other newsgroup!
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>
> John wrote:
>> Hello. I used a summy email address when I signed up for the Microsoft
>> newsgroups. I did that on the suggestion of someone, who asserted that my
>> email could be harvested by spamers. My question is: Is there any
>> advantage
>> to using a real email address? The only one I can think of is for
>> receiving
>> emails directly as opposed to a person's responding to the group. If I
>> were
>> to use my true email address, would there be any way to prevent it from
>> being harvested by spammers?
>>
>> Thank you.
>