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Dam Spam

Written by: Donald F. Pooley

Article Overview: I get about 100 spams a day, some because I order stuff off the internet, and my email address might be sold to other vendors so they can solicit me.

Dam Spam

I get about 100 spams a day, some because I order stuff off the internet, and my email address might be sold to other vendors so they can solicit me.
A possible solution is a 'disposable' email address---a sort of online alias---called "Sneakemail" which let's you create as many aliases as you want.
Mail to your Sneakemail address is rerouted to your real one and when you reply it is rerouted back to the sender.
Your real address is never seen. If you get unwanted email through this Sneakemail alias, such as spam, you control it by filtering incoming mail using the Sneakemail filters, disabling the Sneakemail address itself, or disposing of it permanently.
You also now know where a spammer got your address.
It's free at http://sneakemail.com/

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Re: Adobe Flex Developer Team need sales agents in US - This is purely advertising, it should be regarded as a Spam.
Re: A lot of electronics spam today! - Haha... great thread here, guys. Nice name, Michelle, I think that would suit very well. I wonder just how many websites and forums could benefit from a service like this. Anyone ever look into it? Spam is a serious problem for many, many people. I imagine there are those who would be willing to pay for a service to get rid of the never-ending nightmare.
I developed a personal tool - Institute for Marketecology, the flood of gets rich quick schemes and Spam has made a lot of people equate the term with unethical behavior. Fortunately, there are plenty ethical people out there using honest Internet marketing techniques to counteract this.
Re: Building Links By Spamming Forums - Hi Paul, I agree that it is legitimate to use forums to promote your business, and to promote your business in as many forums as possible. One of the problems with spam posting is that the spammer is not interested in giving anything back to the forum community where he or she posts. Spam messages are almost always badly written and very generalized; they fail to contribute anything to the conversation and they are often completely irrelevant.
Global Moderators - I've wanted to suggest this for a long time (pretty much ever since I became a moderator here) but I never seem to remember when I am actually here. It was on my mind just now so I decided to come post it before I forget again. Every forum I currently moderate or have ever moderated (other than this one) doesn't limit the moderators to certain sections like we do here. They have global moderators, which basically means every moderator has moderating powers in all (or almost all) sections of the forum. In my opinion, it is much better to do it that way. Currently only GT and Evan can moderate every section. The rest of us only have one section each. And really only GT does the global moderating because Evan is too busy with other stuff. That creates a problem when GT is not around. Spam often gets left for many hours and sometimes even days at a time. Plus it creates a lot more work for GT when he is here. Yes, he is usually pretty quick about getting to them but he shouldn't have to be the only one doing it. What happens when he gets sick? Or goes on vacation? Or is too busy to come here on certain days? Or just takes a break for a few days? I almost always report several spam posts every day then have to wait an unknown amount of time before GT gets to deleting them. But it would be a lot easier and better for the forum if mods could just delete them as soon as we see them. I'm also a member of a TON of forums that I don't moderate and it seems as though almost all of them do it the way I am suggesting. This is one of the few that only gives mods power over one section. Any thoughts?


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