Well here are a few things... A lot of spam comes from harvesting email addresses...
Does your email appear on a website somewhere? Maybe it appears in message archives.. Like here... People spidering for names inevitably will find you sooner or later and presto, spam... Some things to do: 1. Use custom email addresses for everything you sign up for... or build some relationship so you can track the origin... 2. Don't put your email in completion on any site where automatic collection methods will harvest you... Use forms for contacting people on your sites... 3. Be progressive about unsubscribing and isolating people who spam you... Threats of legal action tend to get some ears... complain to their ISP and maybe DOS attach them if as a last result they still persist... -paris At 02:36 PM 1/5/2003 -0800, you wrote: >I am getting much more spam then I did say a month ago myself. I get >about 150 a day, and it is getting annoying. What I have been doing, >though, is when I do sign up for a website, I put the website name as >the username, since I have a catch all. Now I can see who is giving out >my email address and I speak with that company, asking why they sold my >name. I get more porn spam then anything, and I have never signed up for >a porn site or the like, so I do not understand it either. They love us >all, Mike :) > >Robert > >-----Original Message----- >From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 2:33 PM >To: CF-Community >Subject: Spam on the rise? > >On Jan 1 I put in some more IPs and domains to be blocked due to >spamming. Since >then, I've gotten 63 spam messages that have gotten through (i.e. from >unblocked >domains or IPs). Even the lists which are secured with subject scanners >and the >like have been hit by 3 spam messages (I removed them). Have others >noticed an >increase in the level of spam in the last week or is it just that >spammers like >me? > >I'm going to try something new in the coming weeks. When I report a spam >attack, >I'm going to create a mail account for the spam message and use that as >the FROM >address for the abuse email. This will tell me if the abuse report is >just being >used as a "yes, he's alive" for the spammers or not. If it just gets a >reply, >then no prob but if I start getting spam on it, banned! >(Yes, I know I can just join a RBH or the like but I can only trust >myself when >it comes to the lists. I have to be sure that the address IS a spammer, >not >trust others to tell me that it is.) > >Michael Dinowitz >Master of the House of Fusion >http://www.houseoffusion.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
