Is it just me, or is spam continually getting worse? My hosting company doesn’t do a great deal to block it either; they have simple spam filters which block “known addresses”, but that means spammers that spoof their domain still get their e-mails through.
I’m not sure where the spammers get the e-mail address from, either. In a few of my early posts to blog I know I made the mistake of publishing (bogus) e-mail addresses in some of the stories – and clearly they’ve been picked up by spambots. But there’s also some wierd ones in there – like “www.keith” (@gerrod.com). And, since mails sent to any address for my domain just forward to my proper address (i.e. “catchall”), they all end up in my account.
To help combat this, I’ve set up some auto-responders which forward mails sent to the bogus addresses into a spam account. Every few months I go and clean it out, which I’ve just started to do now. There’s 3,800 mails in there, which have accumlated in less than 3 months – that’s about 40 spam mails per day! Unfortunately – and worst of all – I’ve started getting spam mail sent to my proper mail address. Thankfully I don’t get a heap of spam sent there; but I don’t know if that will change or not. Only time will tell, I guess.
Still, I always try to focus on the positives of any situation, so I guess I’ll always have lots of places to buy cheap software or weight-loss pills, lots of people willing to lend me money at great rates, lots of chances to get a free cell phone or iPod, and lots of places where I can get another degree and earn more money.
. But I’m wondering why you still need a scanner? I have downloaded a great scanner app for my phone so I just take...
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3.800??? that’s disgusting! i hope that one day, spam just goes out of fashion and everyone will realise that it is not a successful marketing tool.
Throw the catch-all in the trash. I mean how important could it be? Do you really want to answer e-mail from someone that can’t type your address properly? It would be a really good moron filter, not to mention spam filter.
Good call Wayne.<br><br>I have been fortunate enough to never really get spam. The only spam I have been receiving lately is for some stupid handwriting analysis website. <br><br>I remember the day i looked into that website and I have cursed it ever since.<br><br>If you get spam I think it is because of two reasons :-<br><br>a) You leave your email address on an unsavoury site<br>b) Someone who doesn’t like you has left your email address on an unsavoury site.<br><br>Trust No One
As I recall, it was Michelle that put you onto that handwriting site… still trust her?
<br><br>I emailed them as soon as they started spamming me and asked them to leave me alone. Have you tried to unsubscribe?
Meanwhile does this mean my bigtallguy@gerrod.com wont work anymore? Doh..can spam bots read comments?<br><br>L.
Hahaha… bigtallguy… nah, most of them will still work. The only ones that won’t (from memory) are:<ul><li>starving</li><li>keith</li><li>www.keith</li><li>guru</li><li>spam</li></ul>… there may be some others, but generally you should be safe.<br><br>Not sure about a spambot trolling through the comments!
how about whosmybitch@gerrod.com??
<br><br>I HATE Spam and I would love to get paid to track those f*ckers down and castrate them… they screw things up for everyone.<br><br>@ssholes!!
yeah I get heaps of spam too. I will never need to google for viagra.