cigarkid22 --- FYI ... if you post on a public forum, it is open for all to read and comment. Also, those that you see posting their email addresses are the 'newbies' that don't know any better.
In the six plus years I've been around these forums ... I've been told by way too many people that had posted their email addresses at various forums ... that they ended up getting bombarded by 'spam' once they posted their addys.
Spam bots, also known as email harvesters, email address harvesters, crawlers or spiders, are quite probably the single most insidious manner by which spammers collect the email addresses of innocent victims.
Spam bots are software used by spammers to automatically "crawl" the web, (and newsgroups, chat rooms, IRC, instant messager and other contact databases) and locate any and every email address they can find. They then record all these harvested email addresses into a database to be used for plying the evil trade of the spammer.
I was just trying to enlighten you to the possibility, and help you out a little. Sorry if my help offended you ...
