"AL" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > Any time you see a Web site offering something for sale and not accepting > credit cards, ask yourself, "Why does this merchant not accept credit cards? > Not even via PayPal?" Most of the time, it is because that merchant has > severe financial problems. Then ask yourself if you really want to do > business with such a merchant. > You are quite right, but I think it's even simpler - ask yourself whether you want to do business with a spammer. There people are swamping the web, and trying to force us to pay their advertising costs. They reckon that if they get 1 hit per million mails, it's worth doing, so using them only encourages others. Lesley Robertson