"Alex" wrote in message
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"Davy Holt" wrote in message
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In message , andy barnes
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The amount of spam you get after posting on here don't help either

If you are using "Outlook Express" follow this route. Tools : Accounts :
News : Properties : then change your e-mail address for instance
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subscribers cannot directly contact you but it stops all the Spam.

Except you need to make sure that you don't inadvertantly use
someone else's registered domain (the part after @).
www.thesea.com is such a registered domain and you can get
into trouble if you use it without permission. A good site for checking
this is www.uk2.net, where it will also give you a good deal of other info.

A couple of good (and free) ways to deal with spam is, e.g.
www.spammotel.com where you can create as many new email addresses
as you like and delete, suspend or re-activate them at will. It will also
tell you
(if you want it to) just where the spammer got your address from.

There is also www.spamgourmet.com where you can set up an account to
forward a chosen numbers of emails to your proper email address and then
all subsequent emails are automatically deleted (in my particular case the
first 4 were forwarded, the rest all deleted). This is useful if you need to
initially
validate an email address for puposes such as posting to Googlegroups and
News Individualnet, for example, but don't want the susequent spam deluge.

There are other such site too, but ITYGTP