Spam Karma 2
Friday, April 8th, 2005 at 9:11 pm
Ack! I just got my first spam at my very well protected personal email address. You know the one that I never give out at websites, and made a fake spam-collecting one to protect? The one that has been completely spam free for more than a year? Well someone must have entered it at a website somewhere. Who? I demand to know who!
Ok, so it really isn't that bad, since the spam filters running on my email server moved it to the trash automatically. But please don't give out my personal email to websites. If you wish to send me a greeting card or something, please use nospam (at) [mylastname].us. Thanks!
In related spam-fighting news, the comment spam filters on this blog have been upgraded to Spam Karma 2. If you have a problem posting a comment (i.e. it gets marked as spam), I should be able to see it and recover it automatically for you. Haven't seen any glitches yet, but please feel free to contact me if you get any kind of error messages when posting a comment.
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If your first name is reasonably common many spammers are using dictionaries to spam entire domains. Your domain is publically known so they just spam everything in their dictionary @yourdomain.tld.
Yeah, I hadn’t thought about that. My first name is not that common in the US, slightly more in Germanic/Scandanavian countries…
The admonition is more for my parents and other technology neophytes that tend to hand out my address to all sorts of spammy web sites.