Hi Peter,
Time to learn about  mail filtering.   The primary place for mail
filtering is probably with your ISP  so check your ISP's web site.

As far as munging a valid email address,  I expect the spammer's
programming is a lot better at  finding your real email address than
we are.

Some rules I use in Outlook Express,  Hotmail.com,  msn.com,  and
in  MailWasher software  can be found in links within
 Outlook Express 5.0 through 6.0
 http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/oe6.htm

There are probably about 900 people currently posting as
Peter <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
and that will increase with time.  I would suggest that if you are
going to use anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com  that you
include some very unique information so that you can at least
find your postings in the future.   I'm afraid that "David McRitchie"
is not unique there have been others, but not in the Excel newsgroups.
I will continue to use my real name and email .
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel    [site changed  Nov. 2001]
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