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Offline Mark Gunter

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Beware spammers using 4homepages.de
« on: April 11, 2005, 09:04:38 AM »
If you add your site to "Sites in Action" Resource Center at 4homepages.de, better use a hotmail, yahoo, etc. for the email address.

I added my site in February . . . and used an email address I don't normally use on the web. I have guarded that address jealously, and never gotten even one spam in it until this week, when I got a spam with references to 4homepages.de  :x

If you have a clean email address, don't use it here . . .

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Re: Beware spammers using 4homepages.de
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2005, 06:43:05 PM »
That's true of ANY web page.  SPAM bots crawl web pages just like search engine bots.  They cull email addresses they find from newsgroups and web pages.  As a rule of thumb, you should never post an unprotected email address in either place.