Todd collects addresses ONLY from folks who ask to be on his new products list. The other copies you got were because he's a MEMBER of several newgroups to which you also subscribe. Andy Alan B Pearce on 04/20/2000 08:35:08 AM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: (bcc: Andrew Kunz/TDI_NOTES) Subject: Re: Todd is SPAMming us was[OT] To those looking for 7-segment... >I don't think he deserves being labeled a spammer. the reason he is being labelled as this is the method he has used to collect the addresses to send the messages! I received a message from him, I have never had contact with him or his website, and frankly, if he does not check for viruses on his system, then he deserves all the brown stuff to hit the fan when a virus is attached to an email he sends.