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Posted 7/29/2008 12:53 PM (GMT -5)
I sorta messed up this past week, and thought I would share it with you, so you don't get caught the same way.  I posted my email address inside a post of MKat.  Since then, I have been deluged with ED spam to those 2 addresses.  A harvester pulled my addresses off the board and now is spamming me.  Ifanyone is putting their email address, home address or phone number in their signature, now would be a good time to take them out, also.  The address that some of us use in the side bar function is safe from harvestors, but any inside a post here is fair game, so be warned and beware....
Posted 7/29/2008 1:40 PM (GMT -5)
Another tip I'd like to add. Is only post web based email addresses online (hotmail, yahoo, gmail..etc) If a web email addy becomes too much of a spam trap you can always abandon it and get another. Just give your primary ISP email address to friends. family and others you know you can trust.
Posted 7/29/2008 1:48 PM (GMT -5)
Yes, fortunately I gave out some throwaways...

Posted 7/29/2008 1:55 PM (GMT -5)
Google "bots" are nice and help increase search results that bring people here.

Its a shame about the ones that harvest email addy's.
Posted 7/29/2008 5:21 PM (GMT -5)
wow thanks for the info, I to hate that we cannot share email.
Posted 7/29/2008 5:42 PM (GMT -5)
We can share email, if we use the email function on the left side, under our name and other things.  Tha'ts what you setup when you use the Contorl Panel/Edit Profile function to put in your email address there.  These are secure, it's just the ones that are in the open posts like this message right here.  That's where I posted mine and where it got grabbed.  I knew better, but had a brain-flarp for a second.  If I ever need any ed help, i have lots of opportunities now, I'm getting around a dozen an hour offering everything from ground yak horn to soft Cialis.   eyes :-)
Posted 7/29/2008 6:40 PM (GMT -5)
sorry to hear that James, but gosh darn it is funny. I do have plenty of ED problems so who knows when I have a question you can be the resident expert. haha

thanks again for the info

peace to you
Dale
Posted 7/29/2008 6:49 PM (GMT -5)
James,
That may not be the cause. My email address is has not been posted in this or any other forum (at least not securely) but I have been inundated with Viagra etc spam for about 5 days now. I use the sender block facility as each one arrives. I have found they usually fade away after a couple of weeks.
Bill
Posted 7/29/2008 8:15 PM (GMT -5)
Bil, that's a comforting thought, maybe it wasn't my stupidity....lol  Hopefully, they will move on to some other more likely sucker for their stuff  lol

Posted 7/30/2008 12:37 PM (GMT -5)

I understand it is safe to put your email this way......

name ...use at instead of @ .....isp

Richard

Posted 7/30/2008 5:39 PM (GMT -5)

smilingoldcoot said...
I understand it is safe to put your email this way......

name ...use at instead of @ .....isp

Richard

that works sometimes if they're using a harvesting software. In the newsgroups I and other use to use @nospamhotmail.com. Of course most who needed the email addresses for legitimate email knew to remove the nospam.
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