Comments for Why shouldn't I post my email address in a public forum?

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.
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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 After the time specified, the address is no longer valid and emails will no longer be forwarded.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

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?

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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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