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Did you ever wander how do all those spammy letters get in your mailbox?or how do the spammers know your email address?

The answer is simple ,not only googlebots and other searchbots crawl the web indexing websites ,there are also spambots ,that crawl the website ,searching for email addresses ,and if you submit to a website your email address ,and it appears somewhere on that website ,it gets indexed by the spammers ,and is added to the spammers database and this is how you get annoying letters.

How to protect against spam?
Well the only way I know is banning the spammers mail addresses from your email account.

How to retaliate?
It`s simple ,if you have a website ,all you do is add a spampoisen button to it http://spampoison.com/.How will this stop spam? you ask ,the answer is simple ,this is like a poisend apple ,the spambot will go to the link of the spampoison button and the spampoisen site will give the spambots the spammers own email addresses and will generate infinitly email adresses containing known spammer domains ,this will eighter disable the spambot ,or make the database unuseable or make the spammers spam spammers or themeselfs.I think It`s worth ,having a little button on your site.

Any other suggestions regarding these topic?

Use two email accounts, one for the internet websites and one for people.

If you want to go further, use three - one for people, one for trusted and 'guaranteed' websites and one for other websites.

I've got 6 email boxes, altough two are rarely used, and only one of them receives spam - the one for the random websites, and that spam is effectively filtered so I never have to see it.

I've got a problem with spam, my website is holding a contact page with the email adres on it. I've already replaced the mailto tag with an @.gif.
But anyways, the spam is still coming true.
Now my question is is there a service where I can forward my emails to, let it pass the spamfilter and then resend it to the original adres, where I can get them with pop3?

All tips are welcome...

spam is always a problem on websites , best thing to do if you own a website and you can make another spare pop3 account for it , make it like [email protected] and then use that for registering on websites and using on forums , that way use a pop3 client that rids all spam before even downloading it (need to update the spammers list alot though)

i find it useful, ive done it on my site and it works,




Jeed,

jastarafie wrote:I've got a problem with spam, my website is holding a contact page with the email adres on it. I've already replaced the mailto tag with an @.gif.
But anyways, the spam is still coming true.
Now my question is is there a service where I can forward my emails to, let it pass the spamfilter and then resend it to the original adres, where I can get them with pop3?

All tips are welcome...

If you have a webhost, you can set an email account, let the emails get past through your host's spam filter and then set up a forwarder to your other email account. I haven't tried, but it should work with normal hosts running cpanel or something like that.

DjDarkman wrote:Did you ever wander how do all those spammy letters get in your mailbox?or how do the spammers know your email address?

The answer is simple ,not only googlebots and other searchbots crawl the web indexing websites ,there are also spambots ,that crawl the website ,searching for email addresses ,and if you submit to a website your email address ,and it appears somewhere on that website ,it gets indexed by the spammers ,and is added to the spammers database and this is how you get annoying letters.

How to protect against spam?
Well the only way I know is banning the spammers mail addresses from your email account.

How to retaliate?
It`s simple ,if you have a website ,all you do is add a spampoisen button to it http://spampoison.com/.How will this stop spam? you ask ,the answer is simple ,this is like a poisend apple ,the spambot will go to the link of the spampoison button and the spampoisen site will give the spambots the spammers own email addresses and will generate infinitly email adresses containing known spammer domains ,this will eighter disable the spambot ,or make the database unuseable or make the spammers spam spammers or themeselfs.I think It`s worth ,having a little button on your site.

Any other suggestions regarding these topic?

Now that spampoison sounds fun, you can also use an image for your email, character encoding or simply me (AT) mydomain dot com.

Don't forget to register at SpamCop too:

http://www.spamcop.net/

If you are able to set it up on the server where you get your mail SpamAssassin can tag it as spam and you could then easily forward it to your SpamCop reporting email.

http://spamassassin.apache.org/

How the mail server is setup and what features it has also have a lot to do with how much spam gets through, for example in Sendmail.mc you can disable accept_unresolvable_domains (line 145) which means you want get the spam being sent from someones personal mail server running at their house, also making use of dnsbls such as SpamCops will obviously help.