In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email address. I
use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by spammers.
Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way?
Can I make it invalid?
Thank you

You mean when posting to an online service like this? Sure, don't type your
(correct) email address. See my address or from many others to see an
example.

Note: I've removed your valid address in my reply.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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"Stewart" removed wrote in message
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In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email address.
I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by spammers.
Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way?
Can I make it invalid?
Thank you

"Stewart" wrote in message
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In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email address.
I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by spammers.
Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way?
Can I make it invalid?
Thank you


Munging Email Address
http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

Stewart wrote:

In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email
address. I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by
spammers. Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way?
Can I make it invalid?

If you're using Outlook to send the message using Hotmail's server, you can
mung the address as recommended by Gordon, although it's not as
straight-forward as when using outgoing SMTP, but I've done it. If you're
using the Hotmail web interface, I don't know of any way to do it. I see
that you included what looks to be your real address in your NNTP account in
Outlook Express. You should change that. (Although it's too late now,
since you've posted the real address to a public forum and your addresses
likely has been harvested already. Once harvested, it will be sold from
spammer to spammer ad infinitum.)
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Thank you, I changed my isp a week ago so do not use my old freeserve
address any more. I have changed my address in the newsgroups to the old
address.
Hope that works.


"Roady [MVP]" t wrote in
message ...
You mean when posting to an online service like this? Sure, don't type
your (correct) email address. See my address or from many others to see an
example.

Note: I've removed your valid address in my reply.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

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"Stewart" removed wrote in message
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In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email address.
I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by spammers.
Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way?
Can I make it invalid?
Thank you

I would use a completely fake address including a fake domain. The way you
have it configured now means the junk email message is still going to be
delivered to the Freeserve mail servers and they have to drop process it and
drop it. This wouldn't be really nice to your old ISP. Using a fake domain
name will prevent that.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

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"Stewart" wrote in message
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Thank you, I changed my isp a week ago so do not use my old freeserve
address any more. I have changed my address in the newsgroups to the old
address.
Hope that works.


"Roady [MVP]" t wrote
in message ...
You mean when posting to an online service like this? Sure, don't type
your (correct) email address. See my address or from many others to see
an example.

Note: I've removed your valid address in my reply.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

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"Stewart" removed wrote in message
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In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email address.
I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by spammers.
Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way?
Can I make it invalid?
Thank you

I did not think of that so I have tried again using a fake address, I now
realise that stuff might go to the freeserve address but presume that it
will be shut down in a week or so.


"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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Stewart wrote:

In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email
address. I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by
spammers. Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way?
Can I make it invalid?

If you're using Outlook to send the message using Hotmail's server, you
can mung the address as recommended by Gordon, although it's not as
straight-forward as when using outgoing SMTP, but I've done it. If you're
using the Hotmail web interface, I don't know of any way to do it. I see
that you included what looks to be your real address in your NNTP account
in Outlook Express. You should change that. (Although it's too late now,
since you've posted the real address to a public forum and your addresses
likely has been harvested already. Once harvested, it will be sold from
spammer to spammer ad infinitum.)
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Even if your address is dropped at Freeserve, the mail will still be send to
Freeserve because they are the only one who can verify if it has actually
been dropped or not. With a completely fake address the message will be
dropped or returned more quickly to the originating domain.

BTW; your current address still holds a valid address (or at least a valid
and registered domain).

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

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"Stewart" removed wrote in message
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I did not think of that so I have tried again using a fake address, I now
realise that stuff might go to the freeserve address but presume that it
will be shut down in a week or so.


"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
...
Stewart wrote:

In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email
address. I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by
spammers. Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way?
Can I make it invalid?

If you're using Outlook to send the message using Hotmail's server, you
can mung the address as recommended by Gordon, although it's not as
straight-forward as when using outgoing SMTP, but I've done it. If
you're using the Hotmail web interface, I don't know of any way to do it.
I see that you included what looks to be your real address in your NNTP
account in Outlook Express. You should change that. (Although it's too
late now, since you've posted the real address to a public forum and your
addresses likely has been harvested already. Once harvested, it will be
sold from spammer to spammer ad infinitum.)
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Thank you for the advice; I have now made up a completely false address and
am using that. However I see that any messages that I post are still
showing as "sent items" in my hotmail account.
Would I get round this by deleting my newsserver "msnews.microsoft.com" and
then reloading with the false name from the start?
Thank you
"Roady [MVP]" t wrote in
message ...
Even if your address is dropped at Freeserve, the mail will still be send
to Freeserve because they are the only one who can verify if it has
actually been dropped or not. With a completely fake address the message
will be dropped or returned more quickly to the originating domain.

BTW; your current address still holds a valid address (or at least a valid
and registered domain).

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

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"Stewart" removed wrote in message
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I did not think of that so I have tried again using a fake address, I now
realise that stuff might go to the freeserve address but presume that it
will be shut down in a week or so.


"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
...
Stewart wrote:

In message to Candy FH Muffman wrote of having an invalid email
address. I use hotmail but would like to prevent ti being used by
spammers. Is there any way I can hide it or restrict it in some way?
Can I make it invalid?

If you're using Outlook to send the message using Hotmail's server, you
can mung the address as recommended by Gordon, although it's not as
straight-forward as when using outgoing SMTP, but I've done it. If
you're using the Hotmail web interface, I don't know of any way to do
it. I see that you included what looks to be your real address in your
NNTP account in Outlook Express. You should change that. (Although
it's too late now, since you've posted the real address to a public
forum and your addresses likely has been harvested already. Once
harvested, it will be sold from spammer to spammer ad infinitum.)
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]