Before this gets too far, I'd like to address two comments above:
BizJet - "I never thought it could come from FT, but you never know."

auh20 - "Yep. FT is responsible for all sorts of spam. Really annoys me that the same company keeps changing the email address of the spam for every email so that you can not block it.
But the question is "Is FT selling the email addresses or is someone just getting them off the board without FT consent?""

My comment is this. We as a company have had publications online since 1987 wit hthe original NewsNet and Compuserve and since 1994 on the WWW. Never in all those years have we even thought of "mining" the data from email addresses, "profiling" the information from those email addresses, "selling" the email addresses or "allowing" anyone access to those email addresses. To safeguard that information, we keep such addressses on our our internal servers which have no outside access. My employees know my feelings on that and I'm comfortable there's no leak there. As some of the more tech minded members of this board know, spammers have very powerful software that can scrape email addresses from anything on the net. They do not need to actually have access to any database. I do find it interesting that while a few of you have raised questions as to where the spammining is coming from and seem to hint at FT's involvement, you seem to overlook a fair number of people who have also posted to this thread that seem to have absolutely no increase or problem with spam. I can only hope that each of you have filters, have no tolerance for spammers and that you have confidence that any spam coming to any of your email addresses is NOT coming from or in any way associated with FlyerTalk on a legal or offical basis. I hope I'm very clear about our policy and thoughts of spam....I'm a victim also and not happy.

[This message has been edited by Randy Petersen (edited 10-18-2000).]