It's pretty ridiculously easy to use that spamming technique now -- just scrape usernames from public fora, and try them on the big free email hosts. If you ad

It's pretty ridiculously easy to use that spamming technique now -- just scrape usernames from public fora, and try them on the big free email hosts. If you add a really naive email hashing scheme to your profile pages, the spammer doesn't even have to send the email to see if it's valid!: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~cce/microid/ http://www.cs.brown.edu/~cce/microid/