Recent Spam Issue ? - Tech Support Forums

djm1k0 · September 23rd, 2005, 11:15 AM

ok so my email adress which i don't ever really use online and have never had a spam problem with, just recently maybe like last week started to get blown up with like 30-40 porn spam emails with some pretty raunchy sh1t and it's really starting to piss me off. My question is that if i turn the email adress off being that it's through my website. If i leave it off for a few months the spam will stop, then if i were to turn it back on after sometime will the spam pick up right where it left off ? is there anyway to stop it ? i really don't want to change my email adress being that i have business cards with my email addy on them. this is pretty frustrating does anyone have any suggestions.......

thanks.

djm1k0 · September 23rd, 2005, 12:55 PM

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Doorman · September 23rd, 2005, 06:13 PM

Its an email on your site right? So i if i was you i would contact your host and just ask them to block them emails. Dont know if they can or not but how else can you stop em?

djm1k0 · September 26th, 2005, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Doorman

Its an email on your site right? So i if i was you i would contact your host and just ask them to block them emails. Dont know if they can or not but how else can you stop em?

yes it is an email through my site however they come from all sorts of names. it's really just annoying.

sr71000 · September 26th, 2005, 02:22 PM

your e-mail is found by bots or web crawlers that spammers use to collect e-mail addresses. You could either implement a form that allows people to leave feedback without directly e-mailing you, or you could edit the e-mail slightly by replacing the @ with * and then tell people they need to replace it in their e-mails and explain that you do it so that you don't get spammed by bots, that way you can respond to their e-mails quicker and there is less risk their e-mail is deleted as spam!

djm1k0 · September 27th, 2005, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by sr71000

your e-mail is found by bots or web crawlers that spammers use to collect e-mail addresses. You could either implement a form that allows people to leave feedback without directly e-mailing you, or you could edit the e-mail slightly by replacing the @ with * and then tell people they need to replace it in their e-mails and explain that you do it so that you don't get spammed by bots, that way you can respond to their e-mails quicker and there is less risk their e-mail is deleted as spam!

thanks for the info, so at this point my email adress is pretty much shot there is nothing i can do to stop the spam and might as well change it huh ?