Hi Rod, you and about twenty or thirty of my MEW authors are 'spammers' but they are generally emails from spoofed email addresses, I assume this caused by people getting viruses that use their address book.

Usually they say something like 'hey Neil' followed by a link that you would be mad to click on…

Neil

As Neil mentioned it's usually because some one has something undesirable on there machine that is rifling through email addresses. It can come about from several sources other the viruses – free software that does something worthwhile and isn't open source can be a culprit or anything else of that nature.

It's also possible for some one who knows your email address to play around in a rather malicious way as people will assume that you have a problem on your machine. The headers on the email might give a clue if some one has done that. Some just do it for fun.

John

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Don't let it wrench you away from the forum Rod !

Socket to me, Rod…

Geoff

Dreadful puns. Send for a Moderator – we need a thread-locker.

Haven't got down to the nuts and bolts of Rod's problem really so many more posts needed.

John

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Has this thread stripped it's gears or thrown a wobbly?

Foreigners and colonials who don't appreciate the appalling puns in this thread may wish to know that British Standard Fine humour is an acquired taste.

Cheers,

Dave

I nominate Diane for an honorary BA.

As I have now been referred to as a knit-wit, (Thank you, Neil ) I shall leave you with the following thought:

Model Engineering was once prescribed as therapy for nervousness and hysteria (as evidenced by the febrile posts above) Many new engineers find this hard to believe because, until you get good at it, it actually seems to cause those problems…

Geoff

Edited By Geoff Theasby on 02/11/2016 17:21:44

And there's me thinking Spam was fried in strips for lunch in the fifties as I remembered it – not threaded

Chris