A while back, I was trying to help a poster, and I asked for his e-mail address so I could send him something that couldn't be transmitted through FTM. He refused to post his address in the clear, and the thread came to a screeching stop.

For those who haven't thought of it: My ISP allows me to maintain 8 e-mail addresses, so I use one of them as a "single-use" address, which can be posted in the clear and trashed anytime and with no adverse consequences once it's fulfilled it's sole purpose in life.

Such an address also comes in handy when you visit one of those obnoxious Web sites that gratuitously demands an e-mail address.


The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.

In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire