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Topic: Do ya’ll get lots of spam on your ..
Posted By: MorningZ
Subject: Do ya’ll get lots of spam on your ..
Date Posted: 25 March 2003 at 4:52pm
signed up email?

seems like i have gotten a LOT of spam sent to the email i have on file here (and its unique for this site)

anyone else go through this?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 March 2003 at 3:46am

I get 100's of spam emails each day, it takes me around 15 to 20 minutes aday just going through and deleting them, add that up over a year and that's allot of time wasted deleting spam.

I think the problem is that as so many sites link to this one it often get hits by spammers spiders looking for email addresses, if you have ever placed your email address in a post, or have it displayed in the forum then I guess they probally pick it up that way.



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Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 26 March 2003 at 5:32am
you wont find the email in my profile posted anywhere, and this spam is above and beyond the "100's i get a day" (which you are not the only one who gets so), but i can 100% tell you that its because the emails are freely viewable by non-logged in people or bots, perhaps a nice little if statement of:
"if i am not a logged in member, i cannot view 'pop_up_profile.asp'"

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Posted By: faubo
Date Posted: 26 March 2003 at 10:36am

I use a little javascript on my site to fool around those spiders, many of my "site" e-mails are still free of spam after 1 year, so, I think it's worthy it.

And I use  http://www.sneakemail.com/ - http://www.sneakemail.com/  a lot when have sign up something



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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 March 2003 at 12:26pm

Originally posted by MorningZ MorningZ wrote:

you wont find the email in my profile posted anywhere, and this spam is above and beyond the "100's i get a day" (which you are not the only one who gets so), but i can 100% tell you that its because the emails are freely viewable by non-logged in people or bots, perhaps a nice little if statement of:
"if i am not a logged in member, i cannot view 'pop_up_profile.asp'"

You can't view a person profile unless they are logged in anyway, also only people who choose form their profile to have their email address viewable have their email address shown in their profile.

As spiders are unable to register to use a forum they shouldn't be able to view anyones profile or email address.



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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 26 March 2003 at 2:18pm

i get around 50 spam emails a day now :(

i wish Outlook had a block feature.



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Posted By: cr*piecorn
Date Posted: 27 March 2003 at 4:11am
why not use u webbased account , something like yahoo,... u don't need to download all the sh*t just to read it , and it's deleted in secondes

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 March 2003 at 4:36am

You can't always teel it's spam though.

The other big problem I get is that I get around 5 to 20 virus a day in emails, luckly the combination of Eudora and PC-Cillion 2003 has ment that I haven't been infected by any email viruses yet.



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