I belong to several genealogy reflectors (lists), and four Myfamily.com sites using my email address cn8ff@aol. and I do get some spam, but I ran an experiment by creating a new email address and using it for one and only one website. That website was the one for NBC asking for a summary of the evening news which they offer. With the new email address I now receive around 20 to 25 spam emails each day. Most of them are for drugs, or mortgage offers. Of course, some others I would not want to name. The "only" non spam email I receive on the new email address is the summary for the nightly NBC news. I also tryied this once before and used it only for The New York Times, and I had the same results I had with NBC. To me this proves that genealogy sites are not the problem of passing out your email address. It is the media selling or passing the email address out to their advertisers. How many of you go to media websites for the news?????? Dick Wilt, Bridgeport, WV www.RWILT.com