"Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> wrote: AA> Spammers obtain e-mail addresses from Web sites, USENET, AA> discussion forums, and the like. Secret strings would AA> not be posted to any of these, so no automated harvesting AA> of the strings would be possible. Just leaving the AA> string in an e-mail addresses to a number of recipients AA> would not be a problem, because spammers would not be AA> intercepting such e-mails (or any e-mails, for that AA> matter). As long as the string is not posted in a place AA> where spammers can harvest it, they won't get it. But spammers DO sometimes subscribe to mailing lists, for the purpose of harvesting addresses. -- David J. Aronson, Unemployed Software Engineer near Washington DC See http://destined.to/program/ for online resume, and other info