Chasing Spam around will suck the life out you

Written by Monkey Chaser

Saturday, 04 November 2006

With spam on the rise it is a major job trying to slow it down. It will suck the life out of you if you let it. I try blocking the odd IP address but it never really helps. The spam is being bounced of servers with open relays or servers infected with viruses. There are servers all over the world that are set up to relay e-mail which means the spammer can easily change direction many times a day.

I would suggest it is easier to just change your email address. Never use webmaster@ or info@, the spam will always find its way to you using either one of these. If you own your domain or perhaps dozens of domains your information may very well get harvested from a register of domains. This is why so many people are using services that hide their personal information from robots.

To late for me, I had dozens of email addresses of mine harvested years ago from a few of my web sites. I can confirm that once your address is harvested it may also be put on CD, like mine were.

The spam to these addresses has never stopped for many years now. It doesn't matter if I turn the account off for a year or two. As soon as I turn it back on the spam starts again. This is why they use false return addresses, they never see a bounce or care if you wanted off. The only real solution to stopping spam, once your address has been harvested, is to change your e-mail address.

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