Comments on: E-mail Spam http://ldsmediatalk.com/2009/06/08/e-mail-spam/ Sharing technology ideas for LDS parents and youth Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:07:01 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Colt http://ldsmediatalk.com/2009/06/08/e-mail-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-38420 Colt Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:51:05 +0000 http://ldsmediatalk.com/?p=2664#comment-38420 Excellent tips. However, I think they have missed a very important tip. Avoid emails that are easy for bots to guess. For instance, johndoe@gmail.com I highly suspect bots take first names and combine them with last names and try popular domains. * johndoe@gmail.com * john.doe@hotmail.com * jdoe@yahoo.com * johnd@live.com etc etc etc Years ago I did as suggested above and created multiple gmail accounts; one for personal use and another for web activity. My personal one I used a combination of first and last names, so its easy for family and friends to remember. The web activity one I created a more unguessable email, cjcweb06. Guess which one gets more spam. My personal account received 872 since June 1st 2009. That is 800/month. My web activity one (cjcweb06) only 600 since Apr 2007. Yes, notice the year. That is only 27/month. And believe me I use cjcweb06 for nearly everything. I have been seriously considering changing my personal email to include numbers or something to throw off the bots. Excellent tips. However, I think they have missed a very important tip.

Avoid emails that are easy for bots to guess. For instance, johndoe@gmail.com

I highly suspect bots take first names and combine them with last names and try popular domains.
* johndoe@gmail.com
* john.doe@hotmail.com
* jdoe@yahoo.com
* johnd@live.com
etc etc etc

Years ago I did as suggested above and created multiple gmail accounts; one for personal use and another for web activity. My personal one I used a combination of first and last names, so its easy for family and friends to remember. The web activity one I created a more unguessable email, cjcweb06. Guess which one gets more spam.

My personal account received 872 since June 1st 2009. That is 800/month.

My web activity one (cjcweb06) only 600 since Apr 2007. Yes, notice the year. That is only 27/month.

And believe me I use cjcweb06 for nearly everything. I have been seriously considering changing my personal email to include numbers or something to throw off the bots.

]]> By: Kathryn Skaggs http://ldsmediatalk.com/2009/06/08/e-mail-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-38407 Kathryn Skaggs Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:45:06 +0000 http://ldsmediatalk.com/?p=2664#comment-38407 Great tips and advice about avoiding email SPAM, which I detest. Here, all this time - I thought I was going the extra mile by following the "unsubscribe" links, as well as marking them as JUNK! tDMg Great tips and advice about avoiding email SPAM, which I detest. Here, all this time – I thought I was going the extra mile by following the “unsubscribe” links, as well as marking them as JUNK!

tDMg

]]> By: jtsnake http://ldsmediatalk.com/2009/06/08/e-mail-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-38405 jtsnake Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:08:09 +0000 http://ldsmediatalk.com/?p=2664#comment-38405 Use gmail. Use gmail.

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