Changing who messages are from
 

At the moment I am registered with BT Yahoo Broadband under the name Stephen
Clarke, which is consequently the name that appears in the "From" section
when I post a message to this newsgroup. Can I use a "name of convenience"
eg "Baffled by Broadband" and if so how do I achieve this?

BbyB

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Stephen Clarke wrote:

At the moment I am registered with BT Yahoo Broadband under the name
Stephen Clarke, which is consequently the name that appears in the
"From" section when I post a message to this newsgroup. Can I use a
"name of convenience" eg "Baffled by Broadband" and if so how do I
achieve this?

BbyB

Open Outlook Express and click as follows..

(Towards top left of window) Tools Accounts (Internet Accounts window
opens) 'News' tab Properties (Under User Information) change name to
whatever you like Apply OK and close Internet Accounts window.

That's it! :-)
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aa

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In ,
Stephen Clarke wrote:

At the moment I am registered with BT Yahoo Broadband under the name
Stephen Clarke, which is consequently the name that appears in the
"From" section when I post a message to this newsgroup. Can I use a
"name of convenience" eg "Baffled by Broadband" and if so how do I
achieve this?

Open Outlook Express and click as follows..

(Towards top left of window) Tools Accounts (Internet Accounts window
opens) 'News' tab Properties (Under User Information) change name to
whatever you like Apply OK and close Internet Accounts window.

The OP would be well advised to change the email address box as well to
avoid spam. He could set up a separate email address of the Hotmail variety
just for news postings or invent a fake email address (ending in .invalid)
if he doesn't want to receive email from the groups.

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Max Demian

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 05:58:30 +0000 (UTC), "Stephen Clarke"
wrote:

At the moment I am registered with BT Yahoo Broadband under the name Stephen
Clarke, which is consequently the name that appears in the "From" section
when I post a message to this newsgroup. Can I use a "name of convenience"
eg "Baffled by Broadband" and if so how do I achieve this?

It is too late now you have posted with your (presumably) real
address, the spam bots will be preparing a barrage of junk as we
speak.
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"Max Demian" wrote in message
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"aa" wrote in message
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In ,
Stephen Clarke wrote:

At the moment I am registered with BT Yahoo Broadband under the name
Stephen Clarke, which is consequently the name that appears in the
"From" section when I post a message to this newsgroup. Can I use a
"name of convenience" eg "Baffled by Broadband" and if so how do I
achieve this?

Open Outlook Express and click as follows..

(Towards top left of window) Tools Accounts (Internet Accounts
window opens) 'News' tab Properties (Under User Information) change
name to whatever you like Apply OK and close Internet Accounts
window.

The OP would be well advised to change the email address box as well to
avoid spam. He could set up a separate email address of the Hotmail
variety just for news postings or invent a fake email address (ending in
.invalid) if he doesn't want to receive email from the groups.

--
Max Demian


Oooppss to late !
Roll on the spam train.....

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Max Demian wrote:

"aa" wrote in message
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In ,
Stephen Clarke wrote:

At the moment I am registered with BT Yahoo Broadband under the name
Stephen Clarke, which is consequently the name that appears in the
"From" section when I post a message to this newsgroup. Can I use a
"name of convenience" eg "Baffled by Broadband" and if so how do I
achieve this?

Open Outlook Express and click as follows..

(Towards top left of window) Tools Accounts (Internet Accounts
window opens) 'News' tab Properties (Under User Information)
change name to whatever you like Apply OK and close Internet
Accounts window.

The OP would be well advised to change the email address box as well to
avoid spam.
[snip]

Yes, sorry I should have added that.

He could set up a separate email address of the Hotmail
variety just for news postings or invent a fake email address (ending in
.invalid) if he doesn't want to receive email from the groups.

Good advice.
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aa

"Max Demian" wrote in message
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The OP would be well advised to change the email address box as well to
avoid spam. He could set up a separate email address of the Hotmail
variety
just for news postings or invent a fake email address (ending in .invalid)
if he doesn't want to receive email from the groups.
--
Max Demian

Don't understand what advantage that would offer.
I have two email addresses, both monitored by MailWasher. The one I use
here is the only one I've ever used for newsgroup postings (it's now Spam
trapped very effectively by Wanadoo.). The other with the tiscali isp, and
never used for newsgroup, collects Spam in abundance.

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M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm

"Malcolm Stewart" wrote in
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"Max Demian" wrote in message
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The OP would be well advised to change the email address box as well to
avoid spam. He could set up a separate email address of the Hotmail
variety
just for news postings or invent a fake email address (ending in
.invalid)
if he doesn't want to receive email from the groups.

Don't understand what advantage that would offer.
I have two email addresses, both monitored by MailWasher. The one I use
here is the only one I've ever used for newsgroup postings (it's now Spam
trapped very effectively by Wanadoo.). The other with the tiscali isp,
and
never used for newsgroup, collects Spam in abundance.

Well the advantage of an address ending in .invalid (dot-invalid) is the
spam goes straight in the bit bucket as it's an invalid domain.

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Max Demian

Thanks folks

BbyB
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Andrew [email protected] wrote:
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 05:58:30 +0000 (UTC), "Stephen Clarke"
wrote:

At the moment I am registered with BT Yahoo Broadband under the name Stephen
Clarke, which is consequently the name that appears in the "From" section
when I post a message to this newsgroup. Can I use a "name of convenience"
eg "Baffled by Broadband" and if so how do I achieve this?

It is too late now you have posted with your (presumably) real
address, the spam bots will be preparing a barrage of junk as we
speak.

Not really true, it maybe depends on the newsgroups you frequent. I
post here (and in several other groups) with a real address to which
you can reply if you want and, while it receives some junk mail, it
doesn't receive much.

I prefer make it possible for people to send me E-mail without hassle
if they want.

90% or more of my junk mail arrives at an address I use when ordering
over the internet etc. It's fairly well documented that most spam
gets sent to addresses that are harvested from web pages.

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Chris Green

"Stephen Clarke" wrote in message
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At the moment I am registered with BT Yahoo Broadband under the name
Stephen
Clarke, which is consequently the name that appears in the "From" section
when I post a message to this newsgroup. Can I use a "name of convenience"
eg "Baffled by Broadband" and if so how do I achieve this?


With my OE it is Tools, Acounts and Properties
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Regards,
David

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