NM...found it ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Spam on the rise?
> > 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 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
