Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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Eh?

No, I don't know why SPAMBOt, Inc selected me......although I got the same for the VBB. After it closed.

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Location: Dayton
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It's more than likely a spider program that got your email from a news or forum post. We don't give out any email addresses to third parties.

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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Finland
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You are not the only one getting those e-mails... annoying actually.

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I get at least one of those each day. And countless others. It pisses me off.

Maybe they would understand the pyschology of the situation. I hate in your face advertising, more like advertising and the less I'm going to even pay any attention to them.

Get a frickin clue advertisers. I'm not interested...if I was, I'd seek you out wouldn't I?

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Don't put your email address in your signature and the spambots won't get it ...

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Well, I believe this would be the appropriate place to point out cloudmark.com.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Remora
Don't put your email address in your signature and the spambots won't get it ...

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That's what the private message system is for

General rule of thumb: NEVER put your email address on a publicly-viewable website/internet page/whatever. The spambots WILL get it.

On the other hand, you can do something like this:

"email me at remora.dontspam@nospamyoubiotches.volitionwatch.com" and tell what to remove cuz spambots aren't that smart (yet)

note: the reason why email features are disabled is because of spam. with the email features on, your address will probably be publicly-viewable ... haven't tested it much, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

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Fine reason, but can't you let users to decide whether they wants their addresses to be shown in profile or not? Although there's a small possibility that spambot will get it.

Alright, I have said what I had to say.

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It's more than likely a spider program that got your email from a news or forum post. We don't give out any email addresses to third parties.

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I know...it just sort of amuses me. And annoys me.

I think my e-mails on my siggy, anyway. It's a spam risk, but it's easier for people to contact me for any reason.

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The worst have to be those emails with gigabytes of webpage images inside. Makes my 56k cry.

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