"George Patterson" wrote in message news:NUpHg.17110$hP6.14842@trnddc04...
Wayne Sallee wrote:

Looked more like an attempt to collect e-mail
addresses.

Since the poster has a hotmail account, you are probably correct.

If anybody is "afraid" giving away his e-mails address
he or her should create one "spam" e-mail address for
her-himself on hotmail/yahoo or any other free service
and use it in such occasions like subsribing to forums
or collecting free ebooks, etc...
If a spamer gets your hotmail account - so what ?
Your real e-mail address you keep for your friends only.