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Originally Posted by danielf
We all get spam. When you say you're not the recipient, the spam probably gets sent out to a list and you're in the bcc (blind carbon copy) field, so you don't show up as a recipient, but you are on the list.
Regarding being careful, that's obviously good, but spammers do try to guess email addresses, and there's little you can do about that. If/when it becomes too much, you may want to consider spam blocking software. I don't know the program PEM suggested, but I find spampal quite effective. It's free as well  |
I dont run antispam software, use ntl email addys and yet dont get any spam, (yet), and havent done so for a number of months. Incredible but true.
How you might ask? Simply choose email addys that aren't readily guessable by the spammers, who have programs that write all sorts of combinations of likely addys. The spammers don't care cost the cost of the email is nothing, and if they get blocked they'll just find another relay to work through. They might know if the email bounces back to them as undeliverable, but if it doesn't bounce they know they have a live one, and keep firing the stuff at you.
So I dont use the firstname.surname or intialsurname type combinations. And I dont use my forum name as an addy either! I use names easily remembered by me, but with a few numbers thrown in. So my addy could have become firstname-###-surname@ (where # is a number).