Question but not travel related

Thanks Steve. I have received PM's & clicked on the link & retrieved my message there so know how to do that. I just wanted to make sure. I guess this person saw my review on TripAdvisor I posted also & has contacted me from that. I just don't want people to think I don't respond to messages. I guess he gave me a bad email address. Thanks again.

Stephanie: You're onto something, here's the problem: People who post on the Graffiti Wall (GW) may not understand that, if at the bottom of their post (not here but on the GW) they see a blue hypertext that looks like this< email >then anyone who clicks on the hypertext gets their actual e-mail address.

If you posted on the GW and you see, under your post, something that looks like this:< email > then click on it and you'll see that your e-mail address (not your user name here) is visible to anyone who clicks on it.

Apparently, the automatic spam programs that hunt for e-mail addresses posted on the internet are able to basically do the same thing and are finding the e-mail addresses posted on the GW.

Kent's right. People frequently include their e-mail addresses on the Graffiti Wall and sometimes even here on the Helpline. Once they do, their e-mail addresses are in the public domain and mined for spamming. Never post your e-mail address on a bulletin board.

Thank you Kent. That is nice to know & I would never have thought about that & do hope that is not the case.

And thank you Doug. I suppose I'm just so naive or computer illiterate to think such things happen. I'll remember not to post my email address from now on.

"I'll remember not to post my email address from now on."

Unfortunately, this happens even when people don't use their e-mail address in their GW post.