Thanks to all - I got another e-mail from the source of the concern who thought he had added a leading space in the address box. So that can be covered. Now to see
successes

Alba from the Muddy Kitty:>) - Testing, Testing 1,2,9!
Sword For Hire - Testing
Jim Dixon - Testing your site for you
art brooks - It works!!
brucie - re Mudcat request
brucie - Re Mudcat request
MW - Test
Frank Dutton - Testing from China
Tannywheeler from Mudcat - as per your request
Robyn Park aka Little Robyn - Gidday

not so perfect

Tannywheeler, again - time frame.

and thanks to mack/misophist who knows about these things - test 5 seems to be missing - was this the PM?

- test 1 (linux OS Opera 7.54)
- test 2 (linux OS Konqueror 3.2.1 browser *site does not display well with this browser but all necessary bits seem to be there)
- test 3 (linux OS Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2)
-test 4 (linux OS Epiphany 1.0.4 browser * site badly displayed. Half seems to be missing.) - [ml sent this another way]
- test 6 (linux OS Mozilla 1.6 # the only odd thing is that it took 6 or 7 tries to move the cursor into the address field)

Given that most of the cleverness is JavaScript and either un-necessary (like day of month) or there to fool the spammers (who have gone into hiding) I may take the JavaScript out. It can go back if there is a plague of spam. I do ponder on Tanny's time anomally (=day rollover I think) - maybe I should consider 12/24 clock issues for other pages, but remove it for this. Sticks thumb in mouth and WAILS.

I will make changes in a day or two - maybe I will get more clues by then.

Thanks again y'all.