For those of you who post your email addys openly on message boards, I hope you all like spam.

There are bots that scour these boards, snagging up anything with an @ sign.

If you don't like using the personal profile email option and must post an addy within a message, save yourself some hassle and replace the @ sign with another symbol.

Just a suggestion.

If you like getting emails about increasing the girth of your penis, enlarging your breasts, or getting out of debt now emails, go ahead and keep doing what you are doing.

And if you have a problem with this post,,,please send it to stfu@yahoo.com. ;)

I DON'T NEED TO ENLARGE THE GIRTH OF MY DEBT!!!

I have a large enough debt as it is ;)

Ciao for now!

I have no problem posting my email address in public forums.

nospam@yahoo.com

or try my other email address

spamhere@nospam.com

/snicker

Please direct all spam to censored so that poor shmuck over at the IRS doesn't eat all the spam. Not that the IRS doesn't deserve it

If you want to spam me, feel free to send it to aredhel@gmx.net :)

Yeah...
It's bad enough having that "publicise email address" box ticked in your ezboard profile - they can get to that, too :) (Speaking from experience)

What's quite amusing is that I have a domain name, yet hardly ever give the email address out for it... only to close friends or very trusted places. Never on registration forms unless it's obvious that they're very unlikely to pass the address on or use it for their own marketing. Certainly not in public forums, in any shape or form (one of these days, address harvesting bots are bound to get clever and work around things like REMOVE and NOSPAM in the middle of addresses, or spaces beside the @ sign. It wouldn't take much to do.)

Hotmail is useful as an account to give people on public forums... just change it every year or whenever the spam starts to take over :p

Another way is if you have one of these anything@yourusername.isp.com addresses... I find that quite useful for metering sources of spam... ftp@ for FTP sites that insist on an email address for a password, irc@ for fussy IRC servers, reg@ for site registration forms etc. Best done with a second email account though (eg. Freeserve for the UK folks - just dial in once every few months and they'll keep your address active)

Careful with munging email addresses (ie. adding things like 'remove' or 'nospam') to them... especially if it's right near the end of the address... think about the poor folks who actually own nospam.com, remove.com, whiteelephant.com or whatever :)
Nice FAQ on that (and general tips for avoiding spam) here:
members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html (http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html)