On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:35:36 -0400, "Yes, it's me"
wrote:

I
don't see anyone posting home addresses and telephone numbers, why an email
address?
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People occasionally want to exchange information in a non-public forum
- such as addresses, phone numbers and private EMAIL info. I will do
that with people I know to be reasonable and with whom I have a common
interest.

I check my public EMAIL at least once a week, more often if I'm
expecting something. I've been using the same Hotmail address for
over a year and it has remained amazingly SPAM free, perhaps because
people assume it's a munged address, or possibly because of Hotmail's
strong filtering.