@Born Acorn 8309 wrote:
Yes that’s a very easy way for spammers to automatically harvest your email.
Yep, unless this is a defunct email address (in which case there is not a problem) there is a very real possibility that there could soon be an influx of offers from Thai brides, fake Rolex watch sellers and the like. Once this happens the email address would most likely need to discarded, far easier to change the forum username if this is the case before some spambot picks it up.