Stop Spam!
I'm visiting that scambusters site again, and as I'm in the process of redesigning some of my own websites (for the umteenth time), I'm trying to make my online e-mail addresses less available to spam hijackers. Those nasty robots harvest e-mail addresses from the unwary, like me and you, who publish an e-mail address online.
I periodically remind family and friends who know my REAL e-mail address, that I only use that one to send mail. I'm not going to publish it here! But any of the other e-mail addresses that are attached to my websites are fine to SEND mail to, but don't open anything that might come to you using one of those addresses. I've had to do this because my e-mail addresses have been harvested from my websites and abused repeatedly. Deleting those addresses doesn't help, it's too late after the fact. Now as added protection, I'm replacing all instances of the e-mail addresses with encrypted e-mail forms on my personal sites and those I webmaster for. This has always been an option, but not an easy to use option.
As always, these folks at scambusters have spelled out what you REALLY need to know to protect yourself and your friends from spammers. Take a few minutes and read this page.
I'm visiting that scambusters site again, and as I'm in the process of redesigning some of my own websites (for the umteenth time), I'm trying to make my online e-mail addresses less available to spam hijackers. Those nasty robots harvest e-mail addresses from the unwary, like me and you, who publish an e-mail address online.
I periodically remind family and friends who know my REAL e-mail address, that I only use that one to send mail. I'm not going to publish it here! But any of the other e-mail addresses that are attached to my websites are fine to SEND mail to, but don't open anything that might come to you using one of those addresses. I've had to do this because my e-mail addresses have been harvested from my websites and abused repeatedly. Deleting those addresses doesn't help, it's too late after the fact. Now as added protection, I'm replacing all instances of the e-mail addresses with encrypted e-mail forms on my personal sites and those I webmaster for. This has always been an option, but not an easy to use option.
As always, these folks at scambusters have spelled out what you REALLY need to know to protect yourself and your friends from spammers. Take a few minutes and read this page.