Phil wrote: > A long lost friend, now living abroad, has just contacted me by email. > Whilst I am pleased to hear from him I was surprised that anyone (a > non-member > of this list) could find my email address by searching narrowboats and my > name, > and be lead directly to one of my posts on here. snipped
If it's any consolation Phil your e-mail address is clipped on the web-read version and so, as George says, is only available to anyone if they can guess the missing bit. There is the facility though for me to e-mail you directly but, again, although I can send you the e-mail I can never see your full address and it is possibly that facility that your friend used to contact you. I have never knowingly had any spam from this list (or any of the Yahoo Groups) but I definitely have had it from uk.rec.waterways where I use a dedicated and unique e-mail Yahoo address. I soon started getting spam on that address but luckily Yahoo spam filtering is pretty good and I only get about 5 a week that evade the spam filtering. This is a perfectly manageable number and you can designate it as spam so that the Yahoo system learns the dodgy addresses. Roger
