I have asked for comments on the following - does anyone care? (a) Very soon, I will be changing my ISP mail server and this will require a change in my e-mail address to: <jhfinepw4z(a)compsys.to> This address is already running in parallel with the current one. (b) While that address will be active for a reasonable period of time (initially enough for 99.9% of all replies), when I start to receive sufficient spam, that e-mail address will be discontinued. (c) Anyone who wishes to contact me after that e-mail address is no longer available (and who does not know the next e-mail address) will be able to use a semi-permanent address in which the four characters preceding the 'at' will be replaced by the four digits of the current year. (d) There are over 1,000,000 possible e-mail addresses that I can have using four random alphanumeric characters (36**4). If most people used some method like this to defeat spam, such a small percentage of spam could be delivered that within a few years, the cost of harvesting an e-mail address might become too expensive. Is anyone else willing to give it a try?