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 I have gotten an extremely large amount of Spam E-Mail ever since I put the Contact Me Link in the Sidebar. I did put a spam filter on BlueHost that seems to be largely ineffective. They all seem to be coming from some part of the world that doesn’t use English (or any European Language) as a Primary Language.
I really need (in my opinion) to have some point of Contact with the Community other than comments. But, as I have said in many, many posts previously, I HATE SPAM.
What I have done is make the Contact Link that I had previously, into a referral to my Contact Page. There are a few options to contact me through the page, and hopefully, this will be a bit of a deterrant to the Spammers.
The last thing I want to do is delete the Contact Link. I also don’t want to have to resort to the old me(at)wherever(dot)com thing. I think that demeans the whole concept of trying to be an Open Community.
Let’s see if this new approach works… I sure hope so. Any other suggestions would be very much appreciated.
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Hey cat,
Thanks, I’m still getting way too much spam.
I’ll try that to see how it works.
Joe
Hey cat,
I went to versiontracker and couldn’t find anything like SpamStopper.
I even signed up and went through many pages of choices and still found nothing. (except wanting me to upgrade at every choice).
Nothing on their search either.
Oh, well, thanks for the infor anyway.
Joe
Joe, I put up a contact form using the PXS Mail Form – WP Plugin.
I wasn’t so much having spam problems as I wanted to clean up my front page a little and get rid of the icon link I had with my email address.
You can set it up to point to any email address you want (the sender doesn’t see the address though). And you can still put anything on the contact page around the form you want to customize it.
Instead of creating a live link of your email address, I would suggest “encrypting” your email address. Simply display your address like this “yourname [at] domain.com” Readers can just manually enter your address into their email program. I did this with all my blogs and spam is nearly eliminated!
Hey Chris,
I have started using SpamAssassin and so far, it seems to be catching almost all of the spam I was getting.
Hey Maria,
I really would rather use the live link to make it easier (one step) to contact me.
BUT, I will keep Both Options Open, just in case…
Thanks to the Both of You.
Joe
PS Liz’s Open Comment Night is coming to my hometown tonight, I hope to see you here.
J.
Hi Joe,
I was going through your rant archive and found this. See. Comments do come in on old posts.
I have spam assassin on my server. It gets rid of the vast majority of my spam, dumping it straight to the bit bucket. On my main website the user can go to my contact page and click to email me, but the link is to a javascript that is hosted on my server so a scraper can’t pick it up. On my blog I use WP-ContactForm by Ryan Duff for email. I get 4 – 5 spams a day total in my inbox. I can deal with that.
Hey Rick,
Yeah, since I rearranged my archives into categories, I seem to be getting some comments on the older posts.
I have had spam assassin for a while now and I’m quite satisfied with it.
I am going to look into a plugin for a contact form to help with spam. The email I’m using now is hosted on my server as well. It’s working fine for now, but I’m always looking to improve protection.
Joe
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