On Thu, 06 May 2004 10:56:33 +0100, Derek Turner
wrote:

On Thu, 06 May 2004 11:34:58 +0200, martin wrote:


X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409

there's one born every minute!

Are implying that Agent users don't get spam?

no, but Agent does allow different 'from' and 'reply-to' settings (not
sure that OE does

It does as somebody else has already said.

OE is much easier for a non specialist PC user to learn. I use Agent
my wife uses OE. It's not a matter of intelligence, but learning and
inclination, my wife has a PhD in physics, I haven't.
My wife has never used her e-mail address to post to a newsgroup and
still gets spam. My daughter, who has never used her wanadoo e-mail
account at all even for mail, gets about 20 spam messages sent to her
account a day.

) what one does with that to avoid spam is another
matter. OE defaults to advertising the real e-mail address to all and
sundry, Agent does not.

despite which many Agent users use their real e-mail address
for news.


get yourself a decent newsreader client for a start

her news reader is not the source of her problem.

the way it 'defaults' to posting the real e-mail address (needed for
the e-mail bit) in its newsreader functions is a contributory factor
here, wouldn't you say?

no, it's the fact that the user didn't know how to insert something
different, if it hadn't defaulted to her real e-mail address she
wouldn't have been able to use mail and news at all.
Judging from posts to the forte news group there are also Agent
users, who don't know how to insert a false e-mail address for news
groups.