Try just adding something simple into your email address like I have done. I would stay away from certain keywords like delete etc. I would not put it past a virus author or spamster to put routines in their programs to search out and delete certain words or cheracters. Of course, if that can be done people like you and I could still be vulnerable because a program could be designed to only recognize certain words in our email addresses like aol or prodigy or msn or att etc. Your problem might have been that you were exceeding a max number of cheracters in your email address or you might have been using cheracters or numbers that are not allowed or recognized in an email addresses.