Yes, it's spam and it's called spoofing as mentioned. While it's not technically "dangerous" to open them, you could be asking for more spam by opening it. Often they'll put in a little code to tell if you've opened it and that verifies the email address. A verified email address is worth much more than an unverified one in the spamming world. Not unlike a known telephone number is worth more to a telemarketer. When you get this stuff, delete it, or pay the price. OJ, sometimes people will do the right thing and use BCC when they send mail to multiple people. They usually put their own address in the "To" field and "BCC" the others so addresses will be hidden. It's the right thing to do. Now that doesn't mean that it's *not* spam though! :) People who send to everyone in their address book and not BCC, and also the people who just forward hoaxes and other junk should have their computers confiscated.

Konrad, a few of us also started up another actual forum at http://farnorthgardening.ca/forums/ and we have the Google bot buzzing through multiple times a day! You can edit/delete posts, bookmark, subscribe for email notices on different topics or posts, upload photos directly from your computer or phone and it is completely ad free. The facebook version works for some, but unfortunately it just wasn't what I was looking for but I know lots who are a part of both.

lady_alicia said, "And is there a way to lock your Ideabook so that others can edit it??" Ummmm...do you mean so that others cannot edit it? At any rate, no one can edit your ideabook. lady_alicia said, " I just bookmarked it so I could go back to it sometime if I needed to. It's just that the "title" is the subject of the post/thread, and I wanted to label it instead so I know what it's all about. I may figure something out." I know what you mean and just checked mine and see that I cannot change the name of the discussion that I bookmarked in Houzz. Besides bookmarking some things in Houzz posts, I also sometimes bookmark threads in my browser. Those threads are sorted and put in folders. I have one browser folder named GW learning posts. another browser folder named GW recipes. Of course doing it this way, will save the entire thread, but that works for me, and I can rename the threads saved. I also have a browser folder with bookmarks to all of my favorite forums, and the link to ALL of the GW forums, and to ALL of the Home Site forums....oh, and I save my member page to a GW folder too.

On my screen is a Your Houzz button on the upper right hand site. Click on it. then click on : edit profile now, on the left side of my screen I have the option to click on advanced settings. Click there. Mark everything how you want... I don't want any notifications so I marked everything NEVER! don't forget to scroll down and mark UPDATE! :) Moni