David Smith writes: > my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses. > does anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never > been used can have spam without the ip giving the address out? Did you use 'dsmith' as the user name for the charter.net account? If so the answer should be obvious. Hint: 99% of my spam is addressed to non-existent users. -- John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI