Why does my address appear as part of my name 2525

Good. I will look. I am pretty sure at this point that the problem is not so far back, but has to do with my (recent) re-registration at Google groups where I may have given my name plus address as "user name"

If you are posting through Google's web interface, consider using just your newsreader and your ISP access to Usenet. Usenet is composed of tens of thousands of newsgroups that are quite easy to access and use without the buttistance of a 'value added' corporation like Google. If you look, you will find that quite a few commercial or semi-commercial websites fold Usenewsgroups into their pages as 'forums' to help generate search hits and ad views. You can get the same thing, much more cleanly (and, in your case, evidently more safely) with just a newsreader (Outlook Express, Mozilla, Forte, ... )and either the Usenet newsgroup access provided by your ISP or a separate service that can be had free or at a very reasonable price. This newsgroup, even though it is 'sponsored' by Microsoft, and can be accessed through a Microsoft website, is defacto a Usenet newsgroup that exists outside the control of Microsoft. Microsoft could cancel all participation and support of this newsgroup, yet it would still exist as long as thoughtful people posted, just because Usenet is sort of built into the structure of the internet.

Do yourself a favor and use a search engine to call up information on Usenet, its development, and how to use it. It is uncensored, unregulated as to content, and inexpensive for individual access. It is a valuable resource, and a source of irritation. Full of the same people you meet everyday, with all that implies. You'll find all levels of knowledge, socialization, writing ability, pedantry, atbreastude, and honesty, Some newsgroups thrive, some become hollow haunts of spam. The best ones develop an ad hoc peer review, with questionable information called, and questionable behaviour moderated.

Phil Weldon

Phil Weldon message, news Good. I will look. I am pretty sure at this point that the problem is not so far back, but has to do with my (recent) re-registration at Google groups where I may have given my name plus address as "user name" that words ' That is a funny word, never seen before. ( what an ugly sound; it sounds like yet another Harry Potter invention). valid) I think you mean the Mozilla e-mail program. I did not set that up. I use hotmail and yahoo. But I did not know there were so many facets to one's idenbreasty, a real tangle of names. by Now I copied this on a word document, later to see how this terminology fits in with what I used to believe. in the I do not need anonymity. The problem was spam and for some time somebody writing in my name (or maybe even from my address), which could be very dangerous. Also, with 60 spams a day to scroll through, it was easy to overlook the very rare or exceptional mail that was not spam. can't (By Usenet Yes. I know. got I also had that problem. However, I got *only* 1200 emails a day. Through me, a friend's friend got 9000 at his university computer. All my relatives, a rather complex collective anyway, got hundreds, and many forgotten ties came to life in a very nasty way. to to sequence of Yes. Thank you. I never looked there. the be course at Yahoo and Hotmail I never receive any spam. I only receive spam and worse at the address I used to have here. Thanks a lot.