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HaHa, what next?!
Might be a hoax. See above for more details.
Pendanticist.
Does make one wonder, though, if a virus that reports mail coming from you, when it doesn't at all, could ever get you put on a UCE spammer list. I do get frequent bounce reports about undeliverable mail that supposedly came from my email address when in fact I haven't sent an email from the account in months.
I'm really tempted to remove my webmaster email address from my sites so I quit getting spammed to death. Not quite sure how site visitors would view this. Maybe a comment on the site like "email the webmaster of this site with your inquiries" would be enough, without providing th;e actual e-mail link that spam bots harvest. Any suggestions?
I'm really tempted to remove my webmaster email address from my sites so I quit getting spammed to death. Not quite sure how site visitors would view this. Maybe a comment on the site like "email the webmaster of this site with your inquiries" would be enough, without providing th;e actual e-mail link that spam bots harvest. Any suggestions?
Naturally, removing any addy will prevent it from being harvested by EmailSiphon (et., al.) and any savvy visitor should know three 'normal' domain (.com etc.) addies: Webmaster, Admin and Abuse (usually Hostmaster too) will nearly always get you to the intended recipient.
That logic puts those addies at risk for the same reason.
UCE/SPAMers use all manner of trickery to load up your mailbox and/or have the UCE/SPAM 'appear' to be yours:
I was one who used to use 'whatever'@myreallyfreakingspiffydomain.com addresses until my mailboxes began filling with UCE/SPAM specifically sent to those couple of addies. (None were those mentioned above either.)
I no longer use any addies associated with my domain for this reason and, when I do use an addy, it's layed out like this:
As usual, if there is a site you feel would enhance this<EM> multum in parvo</EM> while meeting the criteria, a link which has broken or moved, or just to make a civil comment, please write. I ask you to use <FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS" SIZE="-1" COLOR="#FF0000">whatever 'at' whatever dot com</FONT><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS" SIZE="-1"> to reach me. Simply C&P my addy into your e-mail client and make the appropriate changes.
As for getting spammed to death. Well, I don't think you'll ever stem the flow. For that, you can Thank all the idiots who open and 'buy-into' whatever the product/service might be. Those are the folks to which we owe soooooo many UCE/SPAM reports, flooded mailboxes, deleted messages (some by error - no doubt) and etc.
UCE/SPAM is the scurge of the Internet. According to published reports this practice accounts for nearly 20% of our ISP fees...across the board and that makes me a fighter of UCE/SPAM....vigorously!
As long as there is a lack of enforcable laws/regulations in place and folks figure they can make 25M participating in the 'Nigerian Deposed Monarch' scams, we will continue to be bombarded by this useless drivel.
Pendanticist.
(1) display the e-mail address as a .gif
(2) have the e-mail address go to another domain
If I can put these two ideas to use, I can kiss the spam goodbye. At the moment, I get about two hundred UCE's a day for my websites. Mailwasher has been a big help, but I still have to scan through so many UCE listings it's a big frustrating waste of time.
Thanks for the excellent suggestions.
Pendanticist.
