Why shouldn't I post my email address in a public forum?

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If you absolutely need to post an address onto a website, or use it for a verification letter, for example...
A good solution I've found is to use a site such as http://spambox.us/ .
This site will give you a temporary email address for as long as you specify. During this time all emails to that address will be forwarded to the address you enter into the site. After the time specified, the address is no longer valid and emails will no longer be forwarded.
You could also block the temp address after you'd received the email you required if you needed to stop the forwarded mails sooner.

A forum administrator has send a private message to all registered people with all their email addresses listed. Is this an offence to the data protection act of 1988? If so as the forum is hosted in United States, is there such a law in that country? Is there anything that people affected can do?

This is nice article. Good point on not using your real email address in your newsgroup posts. This can lead to a lot of spam. And Not that I'm aware of.
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Muthu

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Good points. The freedom to post your email address wherever you want is more important though.

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it's true, we get email addresses from lots of sources but blogs and message boards are faves.
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Hmm

sometimes I use fake email adress
or use special applications from http://rapid4me.com/

Thanks for good advices! To be honest, I had a bad experience. I had good e-mail adress, but then every day I received hundreds of letters from spammers. Unfotunately, I could not save my e-mail at that time and had a lot of problems because of that.
Kolia, thank you a lot for good advice. I really found an application at http://rapid4me.com . Hope, it will help me in the future.

By the way, now I use the false e-mail (Russian, I think)and I check it ones a week. At least, it will not be so hard to loose it...

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