Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 15:43:07 09/10/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 11:55:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 10, 2003 at 05:28:32, Peter Fendrich wrote: > >>I think you all are as annoyed as I am about all this spam filling my inbox. >>I have used 3 different email adresses over time in this forum. >>The first email adress I used was "infected" from start. >>The second one was used here only and was never mentioned anywhere else until I >>begun to get spam. >>The third one has never been used anywhere else than in this forum and now I >>receive a considerable amount of spam. >>It is not possible to automatically find these adresses with spider technique >>because the forum is password protected - you have to sign up before reading it. >>The addresses must have been catched by someone in this forum - right? >>Maybe there is some mirror somewhere? >>Any similar experiences? >> >>/Peter > > >It most likely is _not_ a result of selling addresses. web crawlers exist >that do nothing but grab email addresses. When you send an email, it goes >thru many machines before reaching the destination. Each machine has the >opportunity to read the headers and extract your email. > >Anytime you visit a web site and supply your email, you suffer the same >risk. Well, part of my spam is about selling email addresses so they are traded alright. Anyway your "trick" with servers was new to me. I had kind of innocent view about these servers... The crawling shouldn't work inside this forum at least without a membership but I've also learned in this thread that there are archives outside the forum. I only supply special "spam email" addresses if required but there is another real risk that we can't do anything about: Anyone putting your email address in the "Tell your friend about this site - fill in his email address here"-field is also sending you to spam hell. /Peter
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