Note to self.. type quicker
[Edited on 18/11/09 by LoMoss]
Can someone explain how my unique email address for locost builders is being used by this SCAM company..
Would be interested to know if anyone else has had this.
Moss
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I also use a unique email address for this site and have received the odd spam email...
The email button that appears at the bottom of every post contains your email.
Because you have you full email address in your profile.
Change it so something like:
me (at) gmail.com
rather than:
me@gmail.com
then the bots wont pick it up.
a simple spiderbot can pick it up easily, thre are hundreds out there roaming google
does that mean this site could be trawled for email addresses
Note to self.. type quicker
[Edited on 18/11/09 by LoMoss]
I removed my email address from here and (and other forum sites) ages ago to cut this spam route out.
I'm happy to hear from other LCBers anytime and U2U is the perfect mechanism for that. If I want to take things off-line or send attachements
etc then email addresses can be swapped via U2U in private 
I rarely get spam......(maybe its virgins spam filter?), but I do get some.
I have to have my email addy on here so you lot can get hold of me in case of 'emergency'.
The downside of removing your emails from your profile details, is that when there is work done on the server, it will log people out.
That means if it doesn't recognise your log in, you cannot reset your password, as you have no email listed.
So that means that you either have to email me or ask a good friend that can log in for my email addy.
That means that I have to reset each of you manually ...... 
Mucho hassle for both you guys and me....
Not being a server room techie, not sure what the way around it is, without making parts of the site a 'closed shop' .....
I have a few ideas, but need to speak to ChrisW ...... 
Fozzie
I have a unique email for locost builders which is for my email management. This would be for storing locost related email, which has never happened,
as U2U is preferred. May I suggest that U2U be the default method of communication and that an email is then sent to say that you have forum mail,
similar to those social web sites.
Its a bit of keep up at the back here.
Regards
Hall
I should pay more attention to profile settlings..
Make e-mail address viewable by others? tick box
Duh Oh
Moss
quote:
Originally posted by LoMoss
does that mean this site could be trawled for email addresses
Just looking at the logs of my mailserver (yes I am that geeky), there are a bunch of entries such as these :-
quote:
Nov 27 06:05:40 mail postfix/smtpd[24206]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[122.164.161.63]: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [122.164.161.63] blocked using zen.spamhaus.org; http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=122.164.161.63 - see http://zen.spamhaus.org.; from=<ijusaadaai@fraktsidan.se> to=<pyoqg@smithfamily.org.uk> proto=ESMTP helo=<ABTS-TN-dynamic-063.161.164.122.airtelbroadband.in>
Nov 27 06:46:51 mail postfix/smtpd[24303]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[189.105.0.116]: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [189.105.0.116] blocked using zen.spamhaus.org; http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=189.105.0.116 - see http://zen.spamhaus.org.; from=<tubicgghu@truthtree.com> to=<brek_leunge@smithfamily.org.uk> proto=ESMTP helo=<189105043121.user.veloxzone.com.br>
Nov 27 06:46:53 mail postfix/smtpd[24303]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[189.105.0.116]: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [189.105.0.116] blocked using zen.spamhaus.org; http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=189.105.0.116 - see http://zen.spamhaus.org.; from=<ufdcyuopjwmqmq@libertyfngp.com> to=<qptvem@smithfamily.org.uk> proto=ESMTP helo=<189105043121.user.veloxzone.com.br>