Junk Mail

[Martin IJdo]

Geoff,

Even though you got ridd of the anoying "pop-ups" on this new forum, i am under the impression that i get an awfull lot of junk mail ever since i registered overhere .
Am i right in thinking that it might have something to do with the fact that notifications are sent whenever there´s a reply to one of our postst, and that some advertisers are using this chanel?
It will not keep me from visiting, but i would sure like to know where they come from, so i can block them.
Thanks,

Martin.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Martin, ANYTIME you use your email, ANYWHERE, there's a chance some hacker puke will intercept the headers and use yours (or any others) to redirect his own spam. For two years now, I've been getting spam from various mapleleafup.org addresses that don't even exist. Someone has written a script to go through lists of domain names (ultimately millions of them) and cull them for potential headers.

These people should be publicly executed on live TV. I'd pay to watch it.

Geoff

[Phil Waterman]

Mining for e-mail address


About your question of more junk mail I am sure you are correct. At work we started looking at our web site use statistics and we discovered a lot of late night traffic. What our web consultant is telling us is that some of this is automatic programs that are going through our web pages just looking for e-mail address and links to other sites to go and look at them for e-mail address.

At work we are trying to find software that will detect this rapid search and disconnect or block them from mining our web page for information.

[Martin IJdo]

...........you´re such a gentle man Geoff.

(Boy am i glad i don´t work in the IT sector!)

Martin.