Hi Mark, > Besides that, I would imagine that robots searching for email addresses > to spam would be smart enough to recognize 'markdrago at mail.com' as an > email address. Maybe that was a bad example on how to obfuscate an email address. I'm sure many robots will *not* recognize that as a valid email address though. Every robot that does not recognize that address will not add to the spam in your mailbox. And there is nothing stopping you to variate a bit to trick out the robots. All I am saying is not everybody appreciates his/her email address being included (unobfuscated) in whatever public email, even though (s)he subscribes to a public mailing list. I for one don't. Thus my request for your courtesy to obfuscate email addresses is you have to include them in public emails. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research