Replacing email address

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by mart44

I used Mailwasher for a good while but if the spam is persistent enough and of a great volume you even get fed up with looking after that in the end. It is possible to easily change the primary e-mail address. I did it a while back and haven't regretted it. The SPAM has stopped.

I lost a rather good ranking for my web site in Google because account username an web address also change. I re-submitted the URL to Google and it took about about 6 weeks to get the ranking back again.

TIP: I thought that my web pages might get automatically transferred to the the new address but they didn't. They just disappeared. Be sure to back up your site's files to disk before changing the address. Then just upload them to the new location.

I wouldn't hesitate to change the address again if the spammers eventually latch onto the new address.

If your website has a mailto: link on it then spammers can easily pick up an address from there. I've found it best to use a separate name on the site contactme@... then you can filter it more easily.

[mart44]

I've got the e-mail address hidden from the robots in a bit of javascript so there is no 'mailto:' link anywhere. I hope doing this works . It was on a mailto: link for some time before I did this. Perhaps that is how the SPAM trouble started.

[altis]

A tip...

Think of a new email address (perhaps add the current year to the end of an exisitng one) and then go to the following page and set it up as another of your 15 email addresses:
https://autoreg.autoregister.net/cgi-bin/xtrmail

Then think up some suitably apologetic text that instructs human emailers how to work out that address. Don't actually include your new address in full. Then visit the following page and set it up as the auto-reply of the first address:
http://selfcare.ntlworld.com/cgi-bin/frontend

The spammers, not being real humans, will get the reply and just bin it. Hopefully, real people will twig what's going on and use the new address.