> A QL trader (he shall remain nameless) has fallen into the classic trap > of quoting literal email addresses. > > This might partly explain how spam so quickly found my new email > address.
Strange I have many litteral e-mail addresses on many pages on many sites which are hit many times a week by many bots. However, more than 95% of spam arrives at an e-mail address (the one from which this mail is sent) which is not publkished on any page - of the rest, most are sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and concern site indexing services, web site creation services etc. and are, therefore, 1) probably targeted, 2) probably taken from the domain name registry and not the pages themselves. Of the rest, each e-mail address published on a web page generates at most one or two spams a week. If Tony is now suffering from spam , he should, maybe ask who has sold his e-mail address as a genuine used address - could it be the "ql-users" list? Only joking. In my case I suspect strongly that it is "Real player" where I forgot to give a dummy e-mail address when downloading. Tony Tebby
