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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 2172"><p>Most likely what is happening is the "bots" that continuously scour the web for email addresses are picking up the email addresses that show when you post. Bulletin boards like this one are one of the best sources of email addresses, from what I've read.</p><p></p><p>Bots are computers that do nothing but scour the web 24 hours a day looking for email addresses.</p><p></p><p>You need to change your email address so the bots can't pick up a legitimate address whenever they come across one of your posts. Some folks put in the words "nospam", ie <A HREF="mailto:johndoe@nospamearthlink.net">johndoe@nospamearthlink.net</A>, instead of <A HREF="mailto:johndoe@earthlink.net">johndoe@earthlink.net</A>, and then just tell people to remove the phrase nospam from the address before mailing anything.</p><p></p><p>Mailwasher.net is an excellent filter program.</p><p></p><p>> since starting to post on this</p><p>> site and cattle pages site my</p><p>> email has been filled with junk</p><p>> and porn offers I thought these</p><p>> sites were above this?</p><p></p><p>> I now have to change my email I</p><p>> should have knowen better than to</p><p>> use my own</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 2172"] Most likely what is happening is the "bots" that continuously scour the web for email addresses are picking up the email addresses that show when you post. Bulletin boards like this one are one of the best sources of email addresses, from what I've read. Bots are computers that do nothing but scour the web 24 hours a day looking for email addresses. You need to change your email address so the bots can't pick up a legitimate address whenever they come across one of your posts. Some folks put in the words "nospam", ie <A HREF="mailto:johndoe@nospamearthlink.net">johndoe@nospamearthlink.net</A>, instead of <A HREF="mailto:johndoe@earthlink.net">johndoe@earthlink.net</A>, and then just tell people to remove the phrase nospam from the address before mailing anything. Mailwasher.net is an excellent filter program. > since starting to post on this > site and cattle pages site my > email has been filled with junk > and porn offers I thought these > sites were above this? > I now have to change my email I > should have knowen better than to > use my own [/QUOTE]
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