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Old 27th Mar 2004, 19:33
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Hi Brock, long time no see, hope all is well other than your e-mail problem. I have the same problem with mine too, I think it is down to your e-mail address being obvious as mentioned above.

An e-mail 'bot will "harvest" address in many ways and the clever programmer will make the bot invent names from any e-mail domain such as the pprune one.

I bet there are loads of easy names for the bot to make up in the pprune e-mail domain, most people make it easy for these things to catch your address by simply using their name or pprune name.

[email protected] will never get any junk mail unless the user posted on a newsgroup or similar, [email protected] will within I suspect hours of starting up, attract thousands per week as that is an easy one for them to get. Hope this makes sense..!!!!

FWIW, I know the admin guys have been a tad busy lately, possibly that is why they have not been able to reply here.

Take it easy,
Paul.
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