Quote - Suppose a would-be spammer grabbed a load of usernames, say from the who's online' page at different times, then attached them to various@xyz.com'-type appendages, and sent them out at random.  Would that explain any of this?  **It would, only if members have their usernames as part of their email addresses.  So do any of the spam-victims here do that?
**I don't, and don't ever get spam, though of course that proves nothing.

I do get ebots, the newsletter, notification of comments etc., but almost always uncheck the `Notify me..' option on forum posts.

 

Simple answer- NO. User name is nothing remotely similar to email address(es) used.

Gill