AEP wrote: > > Singhals at singhals@erols.com wrote: > > Dunno -- my spam generates from another source, not the newsgroups. > > Newsgroups are generally not the source of spam. Open email > addresses within website ARE a problem. There are many web crawlers > that harvest these URLs and guess who gets swamped. You can reduce > the problem by using NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW commands in META TAGS and by > using the ASCII equivalents for your URL to hide it from the > crawlers. Making it difficult for the 'bot to find your addy on a website *ALSO* makes it difficult for legitimate contacts to find it. Some of those legitimate contacts have vision or mobility issues that make "fixing" the addy difficult to impossible. The point of posting a website from which no one can contact you eludes me. Cheryl singhals@erols.com