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Thank you... my education continues.
"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon101@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 30/11/2004 Gene Hora wrote:
>
>> Just curious .... the poster has an e-mail address as:
>> anonymous@microsoft.com
>>
>> Is the message phony or does this reply filter through another ISP to
>> get to this newsgroup? I admit complete ignorance on these e-mail
>> addresses work.
>
> MS offers special email addresses to subscribers to MSDN (Microsoft
> Developers Network) as part of the MSDN packages.
>
> I'm not use that anonymous@microsoft.com is one of the official ones
> though. The poster may be using it to avoid spam but (if it's not an
> official email address) that could lead to (a) complaints from MS and
> (b) disciplinary action from his/her ISP (my ISP would cancel my
> contract if I used a fake email address).
>
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> Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK