"Ian Hoare" > wrote in message
...
> Salut/Hi Tom S,
>
> But there are limits as
> to how many email addresses I can look for, and note that you had changed
> yours.

Actually, I sent that from my work address. My regular address is
unchanged, and that's the one I usually use for personal correspondence.

From what I understand, posting to newsgroups is a _great_ way to get on
every spammer's list in the world. Their web bots data mine the NGs for
legitimate e-mail addresses - which of course is what we all used when we
were newbies. So, as long as we keep the same e-mail address, we're
screwed. :^(

Of course communicating with people who routinely become infected with
viruses and the like because _they_ don't practice "safe hex" is another way
to get listed. The first thing many of those malware programs do is e-mail
the contents of the address book back to the perpetrators. Grrrr! >8^[

Tom S