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Posted By: Mr Bluto ^_^ In Response To: Re: A question for you... (Michelle Nightengale)
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, at 5:36 p.m.
Well, at this point, all I can tell you is 2 things...
1. Try to set up a filter like others have already suggested.
2. Never EVER expose an email address on any website. I have about 6 email addresses. 1 of those email addresses is strictly for online purchases. Another one is only for signing up for different accounts (eBay, Amazon, affiliate programs, forums, etc). The other 4 addresses I never EVER use for purchases or registrations. I only give them out to people on a one-on-one basis and none of them are exposed on any website.
Guess what? The four that I use conservatively are 5 years old and none of them get any spam at all. Not even one a year. The other to that I use liberally are only 1.5 years old and they get spam like you can't believe. This is because they are given to merchants that i buy from (most of the big merchants sell your email address, I am convinced of that after closely monitoring my emails in those accounts).
This is probably what happened to you. See, when you post a message here, you put your email address in the email address field. It's out there in plain text for everyone to see. Spammers send out harvesting robots and they harvest any email address they com across on any website. They go all over the web and just harvest away. Even using the extra "NOSPAM" in your email address is not 100% because spammers' software is intelligent enough to automatically remove popular extra words in email addresses. You are much safer using something totally random like myemail@NOSPAM2322232323mydomain.com rather than just myemail@NOSPAMmydomain.com. However, some people might not bother to remove the numbers. Someone legit who wants to email you, that is.
There really is no need to place your email address on your posts on this or any other forum or website. If you want to give someone your email address on a forum like this, put the email address in the body of the post and never display it in the correct format (myemail@mydomain.com). Rather, display it like this...
myemail AT mydomain dot com.
Some people say that some email harvesters can even correct these, but I'm not sure that's true.
Anyway, none of this helps you for this email address you are having problems with. It's too late.
Personally, I say you should still try another host. From something you said in your first thread about this, I was beginning to wonder if you emails are actually routed through one of ALLWEBCO's own domains. If this is the case, then it could be that it is not your actual domain/email address that is being spammed, rather the one that AllWebCo uses to actually route your mail. I could be wrong. But if it bothers you that much, it's definitely worth a shot trying anew host.
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