I wrote a question here a while ago.

Now the message shows on this site:
http://search.webservertalk.com/message1634383.html And my email is
there like plain text. I found out that by searching my email with
google.. and it pointed me there.

Because of that, I get 50 junkmail everyday to my mail.

Anyone know, what to do?

:e

eetu@sivuprojekti.com wrote:
> I wrote a question here a while ago.
>
> Now the message shows on this site:
> http://search.webservertalk.com/message1634383.html And my email is
> there like plain text. I found out that by searching my email with
> google.. and it pointed me there.
>
> Because of that, I get 50 junkmail everyday to my mail.
>
> Anyone know, what to do?
>
> :e
>

1) Use your ISP's spam blocker (if they have one).
2) Get a free throw-away email address for posting to any public forums
(like usenet). Thats what I use for posting.
3) Munge the email address when posting publicly (see my email address).
4) Use thunderbird for email and start "training" the junk mail filter
by clickin the "junk" button for junk emails. It probably filter about
95% of the junk.

eetu@sivuprojekti.com writes:

> I wrote a question here a while ago.
>
> Now the message shows on this site:
> http://search.webservertalk.com/message1634383.html And my email is
> there like plain text. I found out that by searching my email with
> google.. and it pointed me there.
>
> Because of that, I get 50 junkmail everyday to my mail.
>
> Anyone know, what to do?

Get a new email address, I'm afraid is the answer. Once an address
gets dirty by posting to usenet, there's pretty much no reclaiming
it. Filter like hell, or make a new one.

I wish I had better news.

I had to switch to a non-replyable address about 4 years ago for this
reason.

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

eetu@sivuprojekti.com writes:

>I wrote a question here a while ago.

>Now the message shows on this site:
>http://search.webservertalk.com/message1634383.html And my email is
>there like plain text. I found out that by searching my email with
>google.. and it pointed me there.

>Because of that, I get 50 junkmail everyday to my mail.

>Anyone know, what to do?


Stop using you real email address in your posts to public forums

On 2006-10-12, Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Stop using you real email address in your posts to public forums

And the next advice is have a number of addresses for different things.

--
Elvis Notargiacomo master AT barefaced DOT cheek
http://www.notatla.org.uk/goen/

begin quoting eetu@sivuprojekti.com :
> I wrote a question here a while ago.
>
> Now the message shows on this site:
> http://search.webservertalk.com/message1634383.html And my email is
> there like plain text. I found out that by searching my email with
> google.. and it pointed me there.
>
> Because of that, I get 50 junkmail everyday to my mail.
>
> Anyone know, what to do?

Have your email provider set up greylisting.

Have your email provider set up SpamAssassin or equivalent.

Encourge your ISP to use a couple of blacklist sources (e.g., spamhaus).

Filter like mad (Thunderbird, Mail.app, etc. can be trained to to recognize
"junk email").

Learn how to read email headers; when something gets through all of the
filters, forward it to the administrators of the source machine with a
complaint. It's amusing to get back "thank you, we've killed the account
and kept the deposit" notices.

--
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------...rohan.sdsu.edu--
In addition to being universally popular, I have recently acquired
the power to turn water into Heinekin. The world is my oyster.
-Joel K. Furr (1995)