:::Why You Should Never Post Your E-Mail Address:::

I see people posting their email addresses on this and other sites every single day. Obviously, nobody knows why this is such a bad idea, so I decided to explain this for all our members and guests. First of all, you gotta know a little about spydering: sites such as google and yahoo are constantly searching all over the web to find new sites to add to their search engines. Unfortunately, data miners and spam mailers have caught onto the same idea. So, when you post your email address on any public web site, you are exposing your address to countless spammers, hackers, phishers, pharmers, spyders data miners LOL i love all the crazy names they come up with for this stuff.

This is the basic reason I think so many people get junk mail. I also believe that when someone forwards a forwarded email all over the place, those long strings of email addresses attached to the forwarded email sometimes end up in the hands of people who sell them or use them for spamming purposes, but this last remark is my speculation. The first part about spyders and spammers is a known fact. So please beware and don't post your email publicly! Take advantage of our site's private message function to trade email addies outside of the public eye

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At least don't post an email address you don't want spam coming to anwyay. Use a free webmail address for siging up for things on the net, newsgroups, public forums.

DEFINITELY..... anyone want a Gmail account?? Post your email address here and I'll invite you**

**NOT!!

didn't you READ?!

Actually, most people dont know, but there are programs called Spyders, encoded deep in HTML Source code is your email address, in either Hex or Binary when you post it. Spyders "crawl" sites and pick up this code, decode it, and route it to its mail server. That results in spam. Be careful when posting, the best thing to do is post it like this:

youremail <AT> Provider <DOT> com

Originally Posted by robb4248

youremail <AT> Provider <DOT> com

Rob is exactly right, this is currently the best way to trick the spyder bots. i have also seen people do something like this:

"[email protected] <---replace despammed with hotmail."

i don't know if that's as good as what Rob suggested, but it's an alternatvie.

btw that is not my real email address so don't try writing me there!

lol... i should try

Originally Posted by robb4248

lol... i should try

it was my email address a long time ago, but that stupid policy hotmail has about shutting you down after so many days of inactivity caused me to lose that addy. besides, Mr. Mod, all my contact info is in the mod forum if you ever feel the need to write me...

shh.... i only wanted to try that to see if it was real lol

mine is [email protected]
enjoy

Welp, your smart if thats not your email delete it

That is my email address.
I made it like 3 years ago.

But I forgot the password to it so don't really care if anybody has it.

ahhh... makes sense

there aint nothing wrong in posting your email on a forum

Originally Posted by Oklin

there aint nothing wrong in posting your email on a forum

if you don't think so, let's see you post yours. next month after google spyders our site and you start getting 50 spam mails a day, you'll understand the point of this thread.

Originally Posted by Brad729

if you don't think so, let's see you post yours. next month after google spyders our site and you start getting 50 spam mails a day, you'll understand the point of this thread.

[email protected]