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Spam advice

If you don't want to get spam in your "real" home or work account, I would 
recommend obtaining one of those free email accounts such as Hotmail, 
unsubscribing from your "real" account, and resubscribing yourself from 
your 
free account.

The reason is that the Looper's Delight mailing list archives are easily 
accessible to spam bots - software that scans web sites for email 
addresses 
and harvests them for spamming.  It's not just Looper's Delight, many list 
archives that are accessible from the Web are vulnerable to this as well 
such as L-soft, Listserv, etc.  So this email list alone is not to blame - 
if you are on other mailing lists, you may have exposed your email address 
through there as well.

eGroups archives require a password before you can access them and even if 
you do the email addresses have "-"s inserted or overwritten over certain 
characters.  Dunno about Topica.

Anyway, in general, don't use your "real" account for mailing lists or 
posting to the Net in general.

Paolo
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