On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:05:34PM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote: Someone trawled the idg.co.nz sites and discovered lotsa live addresses... so now I get mortgage offers for the US galore. Sigh. Sigh. Sigh. The other idea I had was to have email addresses dynamically generated and exposed on as many web-sites as possible, so that when an email address was used, it could be traced back to the actually host/time that trawled the address. The really terrible thing about all this is it goes to show spam irritates people enough to consider all sorts or time-wasting esoteric counter-measures and detection devices and even allows people to build businesses around the prevention of it. Has anyone reputable done research on how much corporate time is wasted because of spam? --cw - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog