Good question ... K Sethu wrote: > Ironically, with Internettrash , address of a website itself has to have the > site owner's e-mail address ! - So, are we not increasing the risk of exposing > our e-mail addresses to spam robots by the mere act of setting up the > homepage with Internettrash ? ... but I don't think you should worry about it. This, briefly, is how spam robots work ... 1. The user gives the robot a starting URL. 2. The robot spiders the starting page, and all links from it. 3. On each page it looks for and stores mailto links. Some robots look for the @ character outside mailto links, and may attempt to deduce an email address around it. I guess they often get it wrong, but that would not deter them -- the proportion of incorrect email addresses is high anyway. We have no way of knowing what would happen when one of these robots finds <A HREF="http://www.internettrash.com/users/skhome@nospam.lk"> It would be simple programming to tokenise the string to pull out the email address -- but you would have to know it was there in the first place. So what we should be asking (if we are really concerned about it) is "Are spam robots InternetTrash-aware?". Probably not! InternetTrash is a small and obscure provider -- it does not have millions of subscribers like GeoCities. Encounters with InternetTrash URLs would be rare and unusual events -- hardly worth the extra programming efort, however simple. Remember also that spam robots cannot get to pages that are protected by passwords, or which require cookies. The whole of the InternetTrash members-only pages are inaccessible to them.