Thanks for the replies..
But (maybe coincidence), I spoke to a friend about spam after posting the original message and asked how much do you get?
Answer: none. Now, admittedly this person is far more prudent about giving his e-mail address to people/signing up for newsletters etc, but his secret (perhaps) – he has a home network, acorn and pc, all email is dealt with via the acorn machine. This got me thinking, a while ago another friend (popular guy, me!) recommended opera iso ie to speed surfing up. Lo and behold it did. OK waffling now, to cut a boring story short tried opera mail, didn’t like it (although love the browser), so tried Eudora and am now getting a handful of spams a day instead of approx 100. Is this due to security holes in Outlook? Comments please from those more knowledgeable than me.