Hi all, The Email address I use to post to this list is exclusive to this list. I have been signed up for over six months and have never received any spam. I have posted a number of times so I should have had something by now. All the mail is filtered to its own folder for this account, which I archive for easy look up when I'm stuck. I use bigfoot and hotmail to post to newsgroups when I do and both of these have pretty reasonable spam filters these days so I get maybe 5 spams a week through these. I have a yahoo.co.uk account which I have never been spammed on either. I thinks its all to do with how careful you are giving out your email addresses. I'm always suspicous of anything that asks for my email address, some software does these days. Also the google groups aren't available on any of the 4 news servers that I am signed up for. So I don't think that they are usenet listed. Bryan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.303 / Virus Database: 164 - Release Date: 2001-11-24 -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics