George et al, My ISP provides the same features and I get zero SPAM except for the Nigerian Opportunities. They must be slick at ducking the SPAM filters. All of these come through arrl.org. I suspect they have a web crawler that picks up e-mail addresses from web sites. I understand there is a way to mask your e-mail address on a web site to keep these web crawlers from picking them up. Anyone have any information on such a technique? Coy ----- Original Message ----- From: George Race <wb8bgy@arrl.org> To: <arrl-odv@p1k.arrl.org> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:00 AM Subject: [ARRL-ODV:7043] Re: Email SPAM Hi Joel: Yes, I love that feature! Gives me a chance to delete stuff before I waste time downloading it. Is especially good for those huge newsletters that you can't ever seem to download. You know, the ones that are 2.5 Meg and come as PDF files. One of the biggest advantage is having the program "bounce" messages as undeliverable. Eventually this leads to having your address removed from the many email address lists that are being circulated, sold, and traded. 73...George -----Original Message----- From: Joel Harrison [mailto:wb5igf@ipa.net] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:18 AM To: arrl-odv@p1k.arrl.org Subject: [ARRL-ODV:7042] Re: Email SPAM Hi George, What I really like about Mailwasher is the ability to view what mail is sitting in my account at my ISP without having to download it, then being able to bounce or delete them before downloading them to my email program. I like it. 73 Joel W5ZN