Danny - thank you for clearing this up. My apologies for suggesting that the cause of my wretched spam might have originated from the method suggested here by others. However, someone has been passing addresses on - I haven't had any rubbish except to Hotmail (usually from @msn.com, @hotmail.com, @yahoo.com or @excite.com) and for that I reason I'm giving them until the end of the week to stop the level of spam or I shall just quit and rely on my personal and PPRuNe addresses. Both of which are just fine!!
Regarding the 'auto-dialling' caused by your adverts, I would dearly love to disable it; unfortunately Dell's rather pathetic so-called manual for the computer gives no clues as to how and the 'dial up network settings' or whatever it's called, is far from intuitive on this score!
[This message has been edited by BEagle (edited 29 March 2001).]