[jyl]

Just as a follow-up, I hope everyone here knows that if you get an email from eBay or Amazon or some other e-business you recognize, stating that your account information has expired or some other excuse to get you to click a link and enter your credit card, social security, and other info, DO NOT DO IT! It is a fraud, period. If you have any doubt, contact the purported sender (no, not via the suspect email) or simply pay attention to the URL that the email wants to send you to - it won't be the appropriate domain (e.g. "www.ebay.com"). I've been getting a lot of these lately.

Honestly, this spam crap has gotten so bad that I just delete 99% of my email without even looking beyind the subject line. For all I know, my long-lost friend, the blonde I met in a bar last night, or my business colleague with critical information are wondering why I'm ignoring them, but life's tough. I've had the same email address since 1995, when spam wasn't an issue and you posted your email address openly on Usenet and so forth, and now I'm reluctantly thinking I need to abandon it.