Hello Basics Members,

Just thought you would like an up-to date on the 'spamming' situation 
which several members feel could be partly due to archive email 
addresses being farmed.  

Although we feel this event most unlikely, we have taken this further 
with the appropriate person maintaining our archives and he has 
kindly implemented an additional email obfuscation.  

Hopefully this will add further difficulties and confusion for anyone 
attempting to use our archives for this purpose.

Have yourselves a great weekend.

Pat Greenfield
List Guide
IWA/HWG Basics.
5th March, 2004

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IWA-HWG BASICS LIST FAQ INCLUDES:
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==> About the IWA-HWG-Basics Mailing List
==> How to subscribe and unsubscribe.
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==> About Digest Mode
==> What are List Guides?
==> Available IWA-HWG Mailing Lists

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Please understand we will always err on the side off caution when it
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