Hi Peter The make up of the address will have absolutely no effect on the quantity of spam you get Spammers harvest addresses not names Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) >I have a Hotmail email address which I have had for a few years which I >rarely use to send messages and get just a half dozen or so spams per week >so it would appear the more you use an email address the more spam you get. > > I was just hoping that an unusual address that I mentioned previously > would help to reduce it. > > Thanks > > Peter