> 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... Actually, the archives were written specifically NOT to show the persons email address. Of course, that's the normal address for the email. If an email happens to quote someone and include their email address, it's there to find. When I have some more time and processing power, I'll have each message formatted to 'hide' the email address and the like.
> 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... Always a good idea, especially if you have your own mail server. Good idea is to see if coolfusion.com has a free single user version of their mail server. Because its all CF based, you can do whatever you want with the emails. Just add a new name to the DB and you've got a new account. > 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... Going into HoF soon. If you want to reply to a poster directly from the archive, you'll get a form to email them rather than their address. The system will handle the routing and only subscribers can post. > 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... Complaints do work many times. Just do a tracert on the IP in the header and you'll usually see where they're from. If not, try the IP as an url and see if it pulls up a site. If still nothing useful, just ban them. On a side note, if you need a good list of spam domains and IPs, you can grab them off of HoF. There's a link from the front page. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
