At 12:26 AM 10/4/2002, you wrote: >I hate to fill the air ways with useless info but i do not recieve any >junk email. I belong to three mailing lists but none of them have ever >sold my e-mail (thanks john!). I would suggest you be careful about >where you post. Avoid newsgroups like the plague, unless a website has a >specific policy about not giving out your e-mail address do not give >them yours.
Unfortunately, that is no longer insulation enough. Many of the new harvesting tools are webcrawlers. They follow links throughout the internet, compiling lists of addresses found along the way. If you have ever posted to an web-archived mailing list, if your e-mail address is posted on a company web site, or if your e-mail address is available in any form on a web-accessible machine, you are at risk. It's a cold, cruel world. Burgess
