Joe,

> Dr.Clay, I'm one of those people bombarded with Phishing which couldn't be
> blocked. I had to fight 1 1/2 'years' to have PayPal completely remove my
> account from their database. When someone says use PayPal I hold my hands
> up with my fingers crossing in an anti-Vampire symbol...joe :P

I don't know the details of your misery with Paypal, but then you talk
about phising, you are talking about somebody else pretending to be
Paypal. Phising is a popular way of committing fraud on the internet,
and all kinds of businesses are mimicked.

And the sad fact of the matter is that as soon as you email address is
in the wild, you cannot do anything but install a better spam-filter.
There's no way you can combat it. Just filter away the rubbish and
hope for better times. Or change your address and don't give it to
anybody. :D You'll be fine only until a friend gets a trojan on their
machine which rips off their address book.

Like I said before, Paypal won't bombard anybody with anything, and if
they did, I'd say they would have been out of business a very long
time ago. You are most welcome not to use it, though. I hadn't heard
about anyone having troubles like yours before now, but I suppose that
with number of users they have and the number of transactions, even
they will screw up sometimes.

And like Arturo says, you don't have to register, if someone uses
Paypal for checkout.

Anyway, payday is coming right up, so I will get my own copy of Guide
9. That is, if I manage to pay for it.

Arild :)