Speaking of emails, Wendell...Hopefully it's just a coincidence that my email has been seeing a noticeable increase in the number of unsolicited survey related ads this last week. I hope nobody is "mining" the personal info from all your "beerleggers".
That shouldn't have anything to do with us, your email is kept private here unless you have it posted somewhere visible to everyone.
I noticed an influx to our email address here about 2-3 weeks ago.
I use my real name and provide my contact info in my profile, to do otherwise seems trollish.
I too have been hammered by SPAM, but my filters handle it so no big deal for me.
My theory: didn't the old software only allowed Members to see most threads and user info?
this new one is totally public... I am guessing the SPAM is the result of manual data mining
Peter Ehlert, post: 326688, member: 60 wrote: didn't the old software only allowed Members to see most threads and user info?
Yes, which is the same here. The only difference is that there are more features here and thus more data to show. Email addresses are not public and aren't even available to registered, logged-in users, unless the user him/herself has put them in a public area such as a signature, forum post or profile post. You could see usernames on the old software and you still can with the new software.
Peter Ehlert, post: 326688, member: 60 wrote: this new one is totally public
I'm not sure where you are looking, but everything is not public. When users that are not registered or not logged in view the site, they only see surveying-related forums plus the SC Announcements forum. This is the same behavior as the old site.
To clarify, even logged in users can't see email addresses. So even if a spambot was smart enough to register (assuming they pass the multiple security checks before they are allowed in), they still couldn't see your email address. Furthermore, even if they followed everyone here, they still wouldn't see the email addresses.
Peter Ehlert, post: 326688, member: 60 wrote: I use my real name and provide my contact info in my profile, to do otherwise seems trollish.
thanks
Peter Ehlert, post: 326712, member: 60 wrote: thanks
Yes, so of course anyone can see that, which is the same behavior as before.
paden cash, post: 323968, member: 20 wrote: Speaking of emails, Wendell...Hopefully it's just a coincidence that my email has been seeing a noticeable increase in the number of unsolicited survey related ads this last week. I hope nobody is "mining" the personal info from all your "beerleggers".
Maybe the folks at bnp media- whose comatose forum boasts 28000 members,have generated some revenue from their contact list.
Rankin_File, post: 326779, member: 101 wrote: Maybe the folks at bnp media- whose comatose forum boasts 28000 members,have generated some revenue from their contact list.
http://bnp.infogrouplistservices.com/
You won't find anything like that from us.
I get most of my spam on the email addy that is associated with the internet and is the same one I use for Ebay, Amazon and other purchases and all too many inquiries and feeback. It receives 95% junk email at 50+ on a slow day.
Have not noticed any mail from new sites since joining BeerLeg......there may have been a few, but there has always been a lot on there, many forward from previous accounts from other previous providers
My spam is mainly connected to an on-line continuing education class I took in January. Now I understand why the course was so inexpensive.
My public email address that I put down on this site and was my first ever email gets at least 50 to 100 emails per day that are 90% junk, it is hard to filter them out and I've spent hours each month unsubscribing from many of them and searching for the few emails from people trying to communicate with me.
Somebody was looking for some SMI stuff and I think it was 3wks before I found that message. BTW, if anyone really wants to know about anything, it is probably better to google me and find my contact info from the state BOR.
My business email that is on my card and letterhead is only 5% spam and is only seen by clients and others that it has crossed their desk.
I have at least half dozen defunked addresses that are forwarding to one or the other above email addresses and get some spam twice.....
A Harris, post: 341349, member: 81 wrote: My public email address that I put down on this site and was my first ever email gets at least 50 to 100 emails per day that are 90% junk, it is hard to filter them out and I've spent hours each month unsubscribing from many of them and searching for the few emails from people trying to communicate with me.
You are creating a problem and a rod for your back by responding to be taken off their mailing list, as what you are doing is confirming a valid email address. Thus you are invaded.
You are better to set up their address to automatically go straight to spam. I use Yahoo for non primary business and personal to known contacts as it has a great spam filter.
RADU
"...I've spent hours each month unsubscribing from many of them..."
Stop that. It just confirms to the cretin that the email is getting to an actual human being. You will actually get more, not less, spam by unsubscribing to something you never subscribed to in the first place.
Learn how to filter these emails to junk instead.
My employer uses Sophos spam software.
I can say that I probably get maybe 1 spam e-mail every 60 days.
I have yet to have it block a legitimate e-mail.
The number of e-mails it blocks each day is mind blowing.
Great software!
Google does a very good job as well.
I was getting 25 or 50 a day for a while on one address that had been widely used. I started using the Unsubscribe inks. It seemed to work for a while, as the spam volume would go down, but then the junk would build up again in a couple weeks.
A high percentage of them were in Portuguese, which I don't read, but I was able to find the Unsubscribe or similar words (one of them was decadstro) and click the link.
Some of the most annoying had US postal addresses and kept sending the same spam ads from a dozen different email accounts. I'm sure unsubscribing only got you off one of their multitudinous copies of the address list.
I know of one source - my stepdaughter sold a house and I emailed the real estate agent some pictures of it. I started getting spam with the stepdaughter's name and/or her apartment address on that email account, that she had never, ever, used. The guilty party is obvious.
It's possible, even likely, that the real estate agent was not a willing participant in your spamming. Hackers get into things.
