Bobplum - what my fellow denizens of CIU are trying to explain is that although you can read your own email addy, no-one else can.
Do not feel bad about your luddite-ness - I too believed as you did to the point that I put in a mock-up email address. Then when DMSI was begging me to be a moderator by email, all his messages were being sent into thin air.
You may wish to think of it as a lucky escape ...
