Spam

[vylycyn]

I noticed that someone seams to be trawling your site for email addresses to spam.  The other day I got spam sent to bitblot@<my website>.  I had my email address set to public on the forums, so I'm guessing that's where they got it.   I'm not really sure what you can do about it but I figured I'd let you know.

-Will

[Glamador]

Well, as a rule of thumb I always keep my e-mail private on forums if I don't want spam.  But I'm a cautious guy, my spam filters pick up most of the rabble.  As for not being able to do anything about it, I think that's true.  After all, he's just surfing the forums like any other person and checking profiles for e-mail addresses.  No way to trace that kind of activity.

[Alphasoldier]

Hah, my mail has never been private and I never let it either, with reason, I have two, also that my main mail is mostly spyware anyway, thanks to several people and sites, like this one. A very... annoying one, but pretty funny if you're not on the list. =p

I use my main mail mostly for messengers anyway.
So yeah, just use two mail or keep your mail private.

[Glamador]

At one point my Yahoo folder had about, 50 real message and 2700 spam messages.  Took me half a day to delete all that.  Couldn't even just empty the whole damn thing because 50 were worth reading.  But I also have a G-mail acct that's only used for personal things, a hotmail acct which I use interchangably with Yahoo, but usually use that for forum registration, and an e-mail through my school which is where most of my official business comes in.  Sooooo...spam isn't really an issue.

[inkblob]

not all spam is bad

http://www.janetnelson.net/gallery/11851/Innocent%20Spam/

[Glamador]

If only I could have an amusing greeting card-esque drawing to replace all my spam...thankfully I no longer have to delete it all by hand as I used to.  Spam filters are a wonderful invention.

[IceD]

Not so much Glamador, not so much. I had more than few important e-mails shifted through them and they never came back. I had this funny situation, when I was waiting for some important stuff, and after a week of delay or more I asked "Where the %$&%ck are my e-mails", only to discover they were in the spam folder  .

Spam is evil, I tell you.

[silverflagon]

I've lost more than a few that was also so I now check my emails myself before downloading them, and while I am doing it I am wishing all kinds of hell visited on those who send such evil stuff  Filters are not foolproof!