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Re: OT : sharp increase in email spam -
04-17-2007
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Out of nowhere, my spam just doubled :-( From around 100-120 a day to suddenly 262 yesterday and 248 today. It's not much of an issue in that they're all filtered out by my email client, but the sudden increase in wasted bandwidth is alarming. Anyone else seeing this? |
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ric%40pixelligence.com
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:22:24 +0200, address (AT) in (DOT) sig (ric zito) wrote: Out of nowhere, my spam just doubled :-( From around 100-120 a day to suddenly 262 yesterday and 248 today. It's not much of an issue in that they're all filtered out by my email client, but the sudden increase in wasted bandwidth is alarming. Anyone else seeing this? Looks like some fuckwit has published your eMail address. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ric%40pixelligence.com LOL! |
Google says : "Did you mean: <snip@>pixelligent<.snip>"
Hell no ! I'm after Ric's address ! ;-)
<slowly ducks>
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Anyone else seeing this? Looks like some fuckwit has published your eMail address. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ric%40pixelligence.com LOL! Google says : "Did you mean: <snip@>pixelligent<.snip>" Hell no ! I'm after Ric's address ! ;-) slowly ducks |
Shit, I didn't realise that Google spidered inside pdf files....
Spooky.
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ric zito wrote: Paul-B <paul (AT) rasf1 (DOT) net> wrote: ric zito wrote: Out of nowhere, my spam just doubled :-( From around 100-120 a day to suddenly 262 yesterday and 248 today. It's not much of an issue in that they're all filtered out by my email client, but the sudden increase in wasted bandwidth is alarming. Anyone else seeing this? Yep. Doesn't particularly bother me because my filter works well. Where is most of yours directed, more than 95% of mine is to one or more of the .com/.co.uk/.biz addresses I have? I only have two addresses : the one below and a Yahoo one. I get about 50 spam a day at Yahoo too. The non-webmail spam is directed to the address in my sig. I'm wondering : do you think the spambots that trawl these places can reconstitute an address from my sig? Time for a new sig, perhaps? |
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Phil Newnham wrote: Mark wrote: Alternatively, using a picture/image could also work - not sure how good the character recognition software is at present. Of course, I at least have never seen the need to put my email on a newsgroup. NO BINARIES! Sorry I didn't make it clear, but I was of course not referring to using binaries in a newsgroup. I was referring to the other situation where people have their email publicly available and want to hide it from bots - namely on webpages. |
used to do that to anyone who posted a binary to the group. It doesn't
seem to happen anymore - but that's possibly because I use a news server
that doesn't propagate messages that contain binaries.
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Phil Newnham wrote: Mark wrote: Alternatively, using a picture/image could also work - not sure how good the character recognition software is at present. Of course, I at least have never seen the need to put my email on a newsgroup. NO BINARIES! Sorry I didn't make it clear, but I was of course not referring to using binaries in a newsgroup. I was referring to the other situation where people have their email publicly available and want to hide it from bots - namely on webpages. I use a javascript to launch the user's mailer when they click on my |
PHP and thus completely hiding the email address and redirecting the
user to his mailer.
Here is how the javascript could look :
// In the header :
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function PostMan(a,b,c)
{
window.location = 'mailto:'+b+a+c;}
</script>
// Later in the page....
<img src="mailme.gif" alt="email"
onmouseover="this.style.cursor='hand'"
onclick="PostMan('.com','joe@blogg','.au');"/>
Suppose one could break it up even more and mix it around even more.
Drawback is, visitors must have javascript enabled.
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I only have two addresses : the one below and a Yahoo one. I get about 50 spam a day at Yahoo too. The non-webmail spam is directed to the address in my sig. I'm wondering : do you think the spambots that trawl these places can reconstitute an address from my sig? |
that has <space>at<space> and replace it with @
Also domain dot com is replaced with domain.com
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Time for a new sig, perhaps? |
list there is nothing you can do to make it
better, new signature will just slow down the
growth of spam.
Time for a new email address. I'd suggest Gmail
Mike
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