[glyn]

i tried the webmail route - and you were absolutely right, straight away there was three copies of the same junk email - so it seems that the latest ploy of the spammers is to send out two or three copies just to make things even worse -

many thanks for your assistance

but i still don't understand how i'm receiving mail addressed to other accounts - for example, the email in triplicate that i just received was addressed to some other ntlworld account, not mine - any ideas about that plse?