I changed mine after Ruthie and I spoke about this. All this time I thought it was my teenage son visiting porn sites, even though he repeatedly denied it and even though he certainly wouldn't be posting my email address if he were. Although an equal number of unsolicited emails are not pornographic, I still do not want them. I don't fly so I don't care about milage points, I don't need my credit repaired, I already have an investment firm I trust, etc. Even though I have a junk mail folder, this is still highly irritating to me, and I still have to take the time to delete them. Besides, the porno ones are exceedingly offensive, as the subject is usually filled with words I wouldn't repeat to my closest friend. I can get caller ID and call blocker for my phone, but I resent having to pay a relatively large sum of money for a computer and a DSL line only to spend time deleting filth off my computer that someone else has put there. This is the only board I visit in which the actual email address is visible, so after hearing Ruthie voice the same complaint I began thinking it was not coincidental. Also, like most people, I have several email addresses, but the one posted here was the only one getting 10-20 porn mails a day - one day there were over 1,000!!!! It occurred to me that with the addition of the private messaging capability, I don't need to be "cut off" from my Pettalk and potential Pettalk freinds just because choose not to have my email address public.