absalutely right... its hard to believe but people ARE paid to sit on their computer all day and SEARCH for email adresses. Those of you who sign up for random things on the web, click those "congratulations, you are a winner" pop ups or unders, and post email adresses on forums, ever notice your email fill up with spam a whole lot more?? This is exactly why. Not posting your email addess ( as well as other confidential information ), is just a safety procaution for yourself. Nobody likes or even WANTS to spam!

Ah Robb, after making your point, You go and throw your email address up in your sig??

I am also extremely suspicious of those "send this page to your friend" links on some sites. I have four email addresses, and one of them never received a single spam until one of my friends had a web site send me some "add yourself to my birthday calendar" thing. I assume that since some of these sites don't have ads on their site, they must generate revenue somehow, and I know spammers pay for email lists.....

Even though its in the coded format, i dont mind the spam, thats what aol's spam folder is for

I never trust the web bases spam filters, Half your normal emails end up in there aswell, I prefer to have a completely clean inbox/junk folder.

Right now i have 345 emails, half of them are spam, one thing i like, you can choose what to keep OUT of the Spam box, and what to keep in (domain wise)

Brad, this is on and off subject...I on another email (work) am inundated with prescription emails..."your refill is ready" type stuff. If I open them at all ..do they know they have a good email address?

I try and decifer what's junk and delete before opening and report it as SPAM thru work...

As long as they don't get the email bounced back to them, they generally assume it's a valid address. It's hard to do anything about them, I just use a spam filter and do my best to check it for any good emails that slipped through.

i get those crap emails at work too. don't know how i got them started, but i get them. i don't give out my work email to hardly anyone, just for that reason. and the work spam filter screws up inter-office email. argh!!

absolutely! They are getting very creative on the subject and the FROM words to get me to open ....I'm on to them!

lickmyREMOVETHISballs@hotmail.com

that's another way if you absolutely must post your email for every prying eye 2 C.

gee bb.t... your class shines through every post...

^ I'm ashamed.

I'm such a two-faced forum junkie. My wife would *****Slapahoe my existence into the next dimension if she read the words that I put to paper...err post.

I was doing my impression of your wife there.... but I'm more patient 'cause I don't have to pick up your smelly socks

..now if it were MY hubby