We virtually eliminated spam overnight My old address was [email protected] so I received about a thousand mails a day because of the spammers I contacted my ISP and asked advice and they came up with changing our email address to [email protected] the s is for smith and the 64---- is my phone number before we changed we unsubscribed all lists then changed the email address then mail merged a post to all in our address book with a read receipt request then re subscribed to all the lists again The result is my spam mail is almost zero and only comes from sites I may have visited that required my email address Any site that asks for a email address I insert a made up [email protected] and that allows me entry to the site most times My ISP explained that the harvesters or bulk mailers find it to much trouble to mail all the combinations if the first letter is lower case followed by numbers To many combinations Worked for us Regards John Shirley & John Smith Lower Hunter Valley NSW Australia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of K Jones Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2007 6:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] GEN-COMP-TIPS