Michael, You are one of the gracious hosts.. always creating solutions.. hats off to you and your group of loyal users...
If all sites were only so proactive :) -paris At 05:57 PM 1/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > 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 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
