My email has been broken due to spam

[ExpAnonColin]

I think it works OK now, but I had not received many emails and many of my sent emails quite simply didn't work.  Please, if you emailed me in the last 2 days, please PM me any information I would have missed.  I'm sorry to have wasted a thread on this, but I have a lot of stuff I'm selling on and off of eBay that I don't want to miss emails for.

Thanks everyone,
-Colin

[Peter Snowberg]

Spam is such a bummer.

If you want to reduce your spam, you might want to change your web site just a hair so that your mail address is inserted with some javascript rather than just being in-line HTML. That will stop spam-bots from harvesting your address.

Here's a really basic one: http://javascript.about.com/library/tools/blnospamemail.htm

Here's a slightly better or more complete way to confuse the robots: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~trw/spam/spam.htm

For filtering spam out, check out Mailwasher: http://www.mailwasher.net/

Take care,
-Peter

[ExpAnonColin]

Thanks Peter.

I actually got 500 emails in 7 days.  I'm trying out "spamsieve", seems to be working OK, need to get it out of training.

I'll consider doing the javascript for sure, thanks for that suggestion.

-Colin

[travissk]

I've used a method like the more extreme Javascript one Peter suggested and never recieved any spam to the email account it was protecting. I'm not saying it works 100%, but it goes a -very- long way in reducing spam from html mailto: harvesters

[Paul Marossy]

I have one email address that is U1P9J9M9@____
I have never even gotten even one spam email since I created it in 1999.
I had a feeling this would work well for fighting spam. It is simply my initials between the letter/number combination of U1999.
FWIW.

[puretube]

I have one address o.t.o.h. created in 1996 - never sent any email with it, nor given it to anybody - at AOL, which, when I found it back a couple of weeks ago (found the password in a drawer) was full of spam, and keeps getting filled...  :oops:

[Paul Marossy]

Oh, I forgot to mention: I HATE SPAM!!!!!  :evil:

And what's up with all these people trying to help me get a larger penis?!? Or discount Viagra? Or, or, or. Leave me alone already!

[B Tremblay]

A while back, I implemented a graphic on all the pages of the site that displays an address instead of the traditional defenseless mailto-style link.  

It's a minor inconvenience for visitors to manually type the address in their e-mail client, but the new address sees none of the spam that plagued the old address.

[RDV]

What I hate is that Spam is called Spam! It's junk eMail. Spam is a delectable luncheon loaf made of only god knows what.


Yum

RDV

[Adam Shame]

Spam is a delectable luncheon loaf made of only god knows what.

SPiced hAM

[The Tone God]

The term "SPAM" came from the Monty Python sketch. An old acronym from SPAM was "Something Possing As Meat" but later when the term was used for junk email it was updated to "Something Possing As Mail" since most SPAM tried to trick you into openning it trying to seem like normal mail.

I have a couple of private mail accounts that I only use for person to person contact. Never posted. I never have had SPAM sent to them. I have a few free mail accounts that I use for anything I need to post an address for. Then I have a few free accounts just for junk stuff that I regularly change. I don't even have to bother teach the junk email rules for my mail client Thunderbird.

In 1931 the first batch of SPAM was made. They're still working on the second.

Andrew

[RDV]

SPiced hAM

...and shoulder(I read the can).

I like it sliced thin & pan-fried & made into sandwiches with fried egg & cheese. Hence my girth.

Burp

RDV

[ExpAnonColin]

So spamsieve is working well and I did javascript on all of the mailto links... life is getting better fast

-Colin