LOL! I'd hate to give spam signals out to any one either:-). You _could_ go to yahoo and open a new account there. If you are automatically logged in there-sign out and open a new mail account. Just answer the required fields and make up that info. Pick an address and viola, an address you can use when you want to be incognito. If you keep an eye on it you might see how much spam actually comes that way...but I have a yahoo address that is about 4 or 5 years old and I rarely get spam. I do give it out on lists I admin as an alternative address, also I sub in digest form to my rootsweb lists and subscribe to some yahoo lists with it. The only time I send to lists with it though is when I go on vacation. Not such a big deal anymore now that cox also has web mail. margy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Dotson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [WashingtonDC'' ] Frederick News Post > Margy, > > Thanks for the suggestion. I feel dumb for not thinking of that! You are > right, the cookies can (and should) be removed -- I do that with others > routinely. > > Of course, if I made up an address I would hate if it actually happened to > belong to someone and I was responsible for them getting spam. (Wonder if > that's why I get so much?!?!) > > Sue > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Margy Bousman > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:18 AM > Subject: Re: [WashingtonDC'' ] Frederick News Post > > > When the admin of a list I'm on passed away last summer the site with her > obit asked for registration etc. What others on the list told the rest > of > us to do was make up the info, from the email address on. Quite a few > chimed in that they routinely do that in order to read stories...they > also > do this for the same reasons you said. The cookie part, I believe you > can > take off cookies afterwards. > > margy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sue Dotson" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:09 PM > Subject: [WashingtonDC'' ] Frederick News Post > > > > >Try Frederick News Post Archives online. > > > > Brenda, > > > > Thank you for the suggestion. Someone found the obit for Robert > Buechling > > and sent it to me, though the one for his wife Joyce is -- so far -- > still > > "missing." So I went to the web page for the Frederick News Post as > you > > suggested, hoping I could find it. Instead I found that they require > you > > to register to use the site. Reading the "small print" tells me they > > require cookies and will share my information with advertisers.....in > > order to keep the site free. I don't approve of some of the required > > fields -- such as what I've purchased online or my family income. > These > > things have nothing to do with my wanting to read a newspaper. They > only > > ask it so they can focus the advertising that they will bombard me > with, > > and to that I say "thanks, but no thanks." I get more than enough spam > as > > it is. As much as I would like to find the obit, I draw the line here. > > > > Sue Dotson > > [email protected] > > > > > > ============================== > > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your > ancestors > > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > > > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 > > > > > > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >