I have just read a chapter in a book entitled Degunking Windows (every PC owner needs a copy). The chapter deals with protecting yourself from spam. There are outfits out there in cyberspace who make their money by collecting e-mail addresses and selling their lists to spammers. E-mail addresses posted on web sites, forums (such as this one), and newsgroups are like gifts to them. Don't make their job easy, or you could very well wind up with hundreds of spam e-mails in your in-box every day! Just don't do it.

Don Firth