Thanks pgupta011 for explaining that soem emails have a 'no' choice and others do not.

Equally I think you all will find that not all emails have the 365 day limit - some may be once every month - it may depend on the particular provider.

At any rate still keep the old emails. And then on January 1 next year (2000) go and visit all those links. In a very short time you will have accrued a smorgsaboard of points.

BY THE WAY, if anyone out there reading this is not yet a mypoints member I'd be grateful if you could quote me (use pberrett or nberrett) as your referral when you join up. I have only been accruing points for two weeks but have already accrued 980 points. Its a long process to get all the points but now using the tips I've outlined above it will be a lot faster.

One other thing though. I've found a couple of other interesting Mypoints things out.

First when you click on a given link in the email, points will be credited to the person the email was sent to irrespective of whose member key is in the cookie of your browswer. So say my wife received an email at my email address, and it offered points for visiting a given link, if I then click on the link the visit is treated as being a visit from my wife, even though my member key is the active one at present.

Also I also use an older version of Internet Explorer on occasions. Interestingly enough, when I visit a Mypoints site to earn say 10 points, on the older version of Internet explorer I do not get the provider's page and a new page opening up to explain whether I have gotten points or not. Instead I am taken direct to the second box direct. How curious.

cheers Peter