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Comment from Dennis on 2011-12-02

2011-12-03T04:43:45Z

when i post comments in forums or join websites,i use an email address that created specifically for those reasons,knowing it'll be flooded with spam. i listed it here as well btw//thusly the name i used for it.random-junkmail.it's via gmx.com which i reccommend btw//anyway..i empty the inbox and spam folder and trash once a month./that's the only time i log in to it.once ina while i'll get email there from one of the sites i joined.but it's still worth keeping a seperate address for spam.the sites i joined don't send out any direly important emails anyway/

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Comment from Chirag Gupta on 2011-01-31

2011-02-01T05:58:12Z

You are right about that! But for the forums that do allow it's great :)

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Comment from Chirag Gupta on 2011-01-31

2011-01-31T10:28:50Z

Here is an elegant trick to stop spam
http://woikr.com/howto/post-an-email-address-on-your-website-without-the-fear-of-spam

The best part is it displays the email address in a proper format :)

Those techniques encodes your email address using Javascript - many if not most forums and commenting systems will not let you post Javascript.

31-Jan-2011

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Comment from Toledo Attorneys on 2010-10-29

2010-10-29T15:03:10Z

When I personally recommend the blog and forum comments, I do not mean to go out there and find a lot of blogs and leave random comments like, "I found this on Google and I can say, outside the great post!" And then proceed to leave the keyword as your name and link to an inside page.

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Comment from bayan eskort on 2010-10-27

2010-10-27T19:56:16Z

I have personally used the at and the dot on several of the webpages I have put together. This works pretty well, but as you said, the logic should be pretty easy to automate for spammers. I like the idea you proposed for the seeohem, but I would wager that over 50% of people would have a tough time figuring it out. If its a serious website, that's not a risk I want to take.

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Comment from Darren Dheilly on 2010-07-16

2010-07-16T23:03:37Z

A few years ago. as a Clipper programmer (and then a Newbie on the Web) I posted too much information on My Windows Live space, The Infornation (with My Mobile telephone Number) went to the Internet along with My Email Address, And it was a Big Mistake...

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Comment from Jennifer P on 2010-07-10

2010-07-11T01:05:15Z

On a side note, how full is that email box for muchspam@ask-leo.com? Any updates?

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Comment from AJ on 2010-06-05

2010-06-05T15:40:42Z

I got like 10 spam emails going to email the other day back to back and thought if somehow I might have posted my email publicly or something. It sure is frustrating having delete all those spam messages.

AJ - [spam removed]

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Comment from Andy on 2010-04-08

2010-04-08T15:04:16Z

I've heard about a method, where you can put + sign after @ in gmail.

like shishirmba+this-is-to-prevent-spam@gmail.com

does that really works???

[links removed]

thanks
Shishir

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Comment from Robert on 2010-04-07

2010-04-07T18:58:38Z

It seems that old techniques on obfuscating email addresses don't work anymore, since spammers have learned these methods and so they can easily decode these addresses. However creative ways like using "seeohem" and anything that requires human thinking to decode might always work.

http://www.reverse-email.com

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Comment from Gabie on 2010-04-04

2010-04-04T13:42:53Z

I have a domain that gets TONS of emails of job posting. I'd like to just throw the emails to a webpage for others to see without giving them access to my email inbox. How do I forward emails to a public webpage?

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Comment from topspeed on 2010-03-31

2010-03-31T21:03:03Z

The biggest drawback to these approaches is that the email links are not clickable. Anything you can click on to get an email address, the spammers can use to harvest it. Even copy-paste doesn't work, for exactly the same reason.

http://methoo.com

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Comment from ???? on 2010-02-13

2010-02-13T22:54:57Z

I recently did a search on all major people search and record searches and was amazed that not only did my (supposed to be restricted) number and address show up on the people searches but my name, age, and location showed up on the record searches with an offer for whatever price to see all my (non-existant lol) criminal record, possible roomates, and financial records. How did all of this information become visible on the net? I have tried in vain to go to every website possible and remove my listings and although they tell they will they never do, and as well I cannot sit and sift through EVERY SINGLE website because there are hundreds! Is there an easier, more effective way to just remove myself from ALL of these websites?

Mike from http://www.tryingtogetpregnantquickly.net/

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Comment from James on 2010-01-29

2010-01-29T19:45:41Z

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Comment from john on 2009-11-25

2009-11-26T02:18:43Z

You could use a service like classimail.com that gives you a contact form you can post on any site. Here is mine as an example:

http://www.classimail.com/1/posts/2-Craigslist/9-Contact-Link/39-john-bentley.html

Your real email address will never be exposed unless you reply to the person sending a message.

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Comment from Barbara on 2009-10-15

2009-10-15T18:20:26Z

By the way, now I use the false e-mail (Russian, I think)and I check it ones a week. At least, it will not be so hard to loose it...

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Comment from Barbara on 2009-10-15

2009-10-15T18:04:20Z

Thanks for good advices! To be honest, I had a bad experience. I had good e-mail adress, but then every day I received hundreds of letters from spammers. Unfotunately, I could not save my e-mail at that time and had a lot of problems because of that.
Kolia, thank you a lot for good advice. I really found an application at http://rapid4me.com . Hope, it will help me in the future.

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Comment from kolia on 2009-10-07

2009-10-07T13:13:29Z

sometimes I use fake email adress
or use special applications from http://rapid4me.com/

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Comment from Laura Baugh on 2009-04-01

2009-04-02T04:35:44Z

Hmm

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Comment from acai on 2009-01-28

2009-01-28T21:21:58Z

it's true, we get email addresses from lots of sources but blogs and message boards are faves.
[email address removed]

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Comment from adam on 2008-12-23

2008-12-23T23:44:49Z

Good points. The freedom to post your email address wherever you want is more important though.

[personal email address removed]

Actually the freedom of site owners to protect you from yourself (or from posting someone else's email address so as to get them spam) trumps all. (Read the commenting instructions, and you'll see that it says, clearly, No email addresses.)

- Leo
24-Dec-2008

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Comment from muthu on 2008-11-13

2008-11-13T20:27:55Z

This is nice article. Good point on not using your real email address in your newsgroup posts. This can lead to a lot of spam. And Not that I'm aware of.
---------------
Muthu

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Comment from ming on 2008-11-07

2008-11-07T17:08:25Z

A forum administrator has send a private message to all registered people with all their email addresses listed. Is this an offence to the data protection act of 1988? If so as the forum is hosted in United States, is there such a law in that country? Is there anything that people affected can do?

I'm afraid I'm no legal authority, and that's exactly what it sounds like you need.

- Leo
08-Nov-2008

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Comment from Stygies on 2008-08-12

2008-08-12T19:08:22Z

If you absolutely need to post an address onto a website, or use it for a verification letter, for example...
A good solution I've found is to use a site such as http://spambox.us/ .
This site will give you a temporary email address for as long as you specify. During this time all emails to that address will be forwarded to the address you enter into the site. After the time specified, the address is no longer valid and emails will no longer be forwarded.
You could also block the temp address after you'd received the email you required if you needed to stop the forwarded mails sooner.

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Comment from John on 2008-06-18

2008-06-19T02:20:42Z

Leo, for Newsgroups, I have had some success with http://www.newsdemon.com when it comes to removing posts I accidentally passed out my real contact info. They can obviously only remove it from their own servers, but at least it is something.

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Comment from Shishir on 2008-06-17

2008-06-17T10:52:45Z

I've heard about a method, where you can put + sign after @ in gmail.

like shishirmba+this-is-to-prevent-spam@gmail.com

does that really works???

thanks
Shishir
http://www.ausfuhrung.com

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Comment from Chani on 2007-12-02

2007-12-02T15:57:04Z

recently a couple of people added me on msn. i think because i typed my msn addy on yahooanswer to help a person. i asked one of the person hu added me and he said he typed 'girls msn address' on google. how do i get rid of it from the web?

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Comment from David on 2006-11-01

2006-11-01T20:47:31Z

Good point on not using your real email address in your newsgroup posts. This can lead to a lot of spam.

-David
http://www.giganews.com

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Comment from karim on 2006-09-27

2006-09-28T02:51:33Z

hello leo i have truble with delete google bar from my computer. when i open google than typing word it show me the old word i had type from befor. now how i can delete it from my Msn Explorer not from internet Explorer. if you can help me please

thanks

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Comment from mike on 2006-06-29

2006-06-29T17:19:17Z

There are places like www.addressmunger.com that help you encode your email address so that it's less visible to spam bots.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-02-18

2006-02-19T04:12:11Z

Not that I'm aware of.

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Comment from Brooke on 2006-02-16

2006-02-17T01:55:39Z

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Comment from jodie on 2006-01-29

2006-01-30T04:49:54Z

They'll probably catch on to seeohem eventually too. And writing it on three different lines or adding spaces. Try writing it in a picture or setting up a hotmail account especially.

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Comment from Peter Binderup on 2005-08-05

2005-08-05T08:35:20Z

I used to protect my email address, so that I wouldn't get any spam, but by the time I learned about how spam works it was too late for me to prevent it.

That resulted in me having to install programs that would filter spam away, but it was still client side so I had to download the 100+ spam mails each day. Then I switched to a provider that did the spam filtering for me on their server, and this has resulted in a dramatic drop in spam mails.

I actually tell people now that they shouldn�t hide their e-mail addresses if they have server side spam protection, because that would kind of mean that your valid e-mail address is being held hostage by spammers, and I refuse to let those mail terrorists prevent me from being open with my e-mail address.

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