Quote from Lightningsmurf:
A while back I purchased some domain names and possibly used my email address in a public forum. Anyway, the last couple of months the amount of spam I've been getting has gone from nothing to several pieces a day. I realize I'm still low-end but it drives me crazy. Does anyone know of a product I can use (preferably a free utility) to block spam before it gets to me?
All reasonable suggestions welcome!
It's your purchased of those domain names that got you on spammers list.
Go back to the online source where you made your purchase or call them to ask them to remove your name and email address from their
partners mailing list...
because all you need is one of those
partners to sell their list to the wrong types.
Also...make sure your real email address (use a secondary email address) is not available with those domain names you own because its PUBLIC RECORDS to anyone to find info of name, email address, home address and IP address of the owners of domain names...any info that was associated with the purchase....
Also, make a habit to only post your secondary (free email address like Yahoo!) at public boards.
Stay away from Hotmail and AOL because they have a bad habit of
over filtering...causing you to not receive email from those that don't spam and may be interested in purchasing one of those domain names you own.
Something else...send
warning emails to any business associate that sends you and others an email with all your email addresses visable to each other via the To: or CC:
because its complete stupidity when they could have used to BCC: to hide everybody email address from each other.
I do this with friends that send out emails to other friends all at once...allowing me to see 10-30 email addresses of others because my name was in that To: list along with everybody else...
complete stupidity upon the email sender.
P.S. One of the best way to fight SPAM is not to use your real email address.
I get about 15 junk mails in my Yahoo address and NONE in my real email address mainly because when I treat my Yahoo address as if it was my personal address.
Simply...I'm using my Yahoo email address as a filter.
If you've made the mistake and are getting junk mail in your real email address...call up your ISP...change your name to something unique...notify those that need your new email address along with telling them whenever they send you email to only use the BCC: feature...
Mix words and numbers together to make your new email address...NEVER use you name like the following...
stevencognac@earthlink.net
NihabaAshi
