Fighting Spam: One Step at a Time

Ok, I finally got fed up with all of the return, spam E-mail I have been getting. I have put a contact form in my Contact Page.

There was a lull of about a week or so in getting all of the return mail I was getting. Not from anything I had sent but from someone Hijacking my E-mail as I mentioned in a post back then. Seanrox suggested getting a contact form from Ryan Connect.

I took him up on his suggestion, so now if you want to contact me, you don’t even have to see my E-mail address. Just fill out the form and click send, and I will get it.

As another way to try to combat the Spam influx, Lara suggested I set up a “catch all” for my email server. This also has been done. The only thing is I have different E-mails for just about every aspect of my online life. Everything that is on my domain already had a default for spam, which works very nicley. Everything else (personal) goes through various mail services that all have their own protection against spam and stealing addresses.

Something else Lara suggested was to make my Domain Private. I’m not really sure how to go about doing this, but I am going to find out soon enough. Personally, I think that if someone knows your URL, they can pretty quickly just add admin@ to it and get something going. I still want to try it, just to see if it works, I’ll let you know.

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Is Someone Hijacking My E-mail?

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