Just over three months ago I purchased something on Ebay, but was never sent the item (NOT ferret-related). For almost three months I wrote asking about the item, but to no avail or response. When the 90 day deadline approached, I requested Paypal and EBay get involved, which they did, and the person sent a refund (with lots of verbal nastiness, I might add). Unfortunately, soon after I became aware that I was getting an inordinate amount of spam. I had been signed up to at least 1000 internet sites, mostly benign, some porn, some just silly stuff. This generates hundreds of emails per day (today was 523 spams). I have proded Yahoo and others into action, and the guy has since promised to stop. Unfortunately, I still have the spam. I am unsubscribing from most of it, but it will take awhile. In the meantime, important email gets lost in the shuffle, and some just sails into the spam folder and I don't see it. I talked with friends about just dropping the talktobobc emaill address, but it is so familiar that I hate to lose it. So, I will just have patience and slowly end the spam. The bottom line is that for the next few weeks expect difficulties in reaching me. I'll do my best not to miss an important message. Bob C [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 5350]