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Lost my all my email and change of email addy
I'm pretty sure that most of the spam my old email address generated
came not from posting it in the clear on NGs, but rather just from having it in the clear on my Web site. I removed all actual email addresses from my Web site and instead set up a little page with a graphical representation of my email address and some apologies, etc. Then I swapped everything to a new email address (no, I don't use it when posting to NGs either, obviously!) and in several months I have had ZERO spams. When I wrote the email to everyone in all my address books I asked all of them to please never put my email address onto any Web site or ever to send me an "e-card" or ever to add my name to those huge emails (remails) that circulate endlessly. Finally, I keep a junk secondary email address for when I'm dealing with some unknown Web site which requires me to enter an email address. I periodically go through and clean the spam out of that one - it gets something like 50-100 spams a day. The other day, for example, I had to order an Airsoft pistol online for my son and the Web site isn't anything trustable. So I just used the junk email address and then when they emailed the confirmation numbers, etc. I forwarded it to my real email account. Lot of trouble, but free and effective. Grant Erwin To email me, please see http://www.tinyisland.com/email.html Dave Ficken wrote: In spite of all my efforts to stay virus free, I had a major crash the other day (wiped the hard drive) thanks to my 11 year old son deciding that it would be ok to install Yahoo instant messenger on my computer without my permission. Apparently, this is quite a large back door for trojans, etc. I'm back up and running with a cloned copy of the hard drive (thank you Norton Ghost), however, it had been several weeks.....err....months since I updated the cloned copy. Therefore, I lost all my recent email. There were a couple of people who were in the middle of transactions or inquiries with me. I currently have no way of contacting them as I do not have their emails on file any longer. If this pertains to you, please resend your correspondences to "sales at mermac dot com". Which brings us to my change of email address. Please use "sales at mermac dot com" , not "dave at mermac dot com" I've discovered that most of my spam is a result of having had the dave at mermac dot com address posted on my website for several years. I've been experimenting with using the "dontspamme at mermac dot com" address for posting (it is a valid email addy). To date, it has not received a single spam email. Not sure if that means the spam bots aren't harvesting addresses from the group, or if it gets kicked out as a munged address by the spam bots. In any event, it seems to be working. Regards, Dave Ficken Meridian Machinery http://www.mermac.com |
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Lost my all my email and change of email addy
On 14 Aug 2003 05:26:47 -0700, (Dave Ficken)
wrote: In spite of all my efforts to stay virus free, I had a major crash the other day (wiped the hard drive) thanks to my 11 year old son deciding that it would be ok to install Yahoo instant messenger on my computer without my permission. Apparently, this is quite a large back door for trojans, etc. I'm back up and running with a cloned copy of the hard drive (thank you Norton Ghost), however, it had been several weeks.....err....months since I updated the cloned copy. Therefore, I lost all my recent email. There were a couple of people who were in the middle of transactions or inquiries with me. I currently have no way of contacting them as I do not have their emails on file any longer. If this pertains to you, please resend your correspondences to "sales at mermac dot com". Which brings us to my change of email address. Please use "sales at mermac dot com" , not "dave at mermac dot com" I've discovered that most of my spam is a result of having had the dave at mermac dot com address posted on my website for several years. I've been experimenting with using the "dontspamme at mermac dot com" address for posting (it is a valid email addy). To date, it has not received a single spam email. Not sure if that means the spam bots aren't harvesting addresses from the group, or if it gets kicked out as a munged address by the spam bots. In any event, it seems to be working. Regards, Dave Ficken Meridian Machinery http://www.mermac.com One of my brothers pulls the same stuff all the time. The solution was to install a removable hard disk rack, With everyone installing their OS on their drive, and plugging in their drive tray before booting. That way your son would be trashing his own system, instead of yours.Cost would be right around $100 plus an extra hard disk. Chris |
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