dodgy e-mail

[Stores]

Got an e-mail last night saying how pleased a certain lady was that I\'m coming up on Friday night and how pleased she\'ll be to see me. Is it one of you\'s lot mucking about as Eileen opened it and was not impressed at all. Has anyone else had one? Theres only really us lot know I\'m travelling Friday, that\'s why I ask

 

[alan]

Really hope it was\'nt a member David but it is a public viewing forum where anyone can look in and your Email address is available,

 

[sless]

make the address public and we can sent loads of stuff and clog their pc up

that would be payback

 

[MikeR]

Think I read about someone on the Barnsley FC forum recieving a similar email. Think it\'s just something going around. Chopping their hands off would sort it!

 

[willywetegg]

Not funny.

Jim.

 

[TC]

\"Annoying\" to say the least, David

Thankfully, after having so much crap sent to me over the years, my wife KNOWS that this sort of thing happens.

That\'s why I have a separate e-mail address for NESA stuff - as you know, I also have several private ones, which I don\'t publish on the \'net.

If you (or anybody else) wants to hide their e-mail address from public viewing on NESA, go to your profile and uncheck the option \"Make e-mail address viewable by others\"

 

[mark]

never publish your email openly, anywhere on any site ever

the spammers have wee bits of sofware similar to the search engines that run around the net hoovering up any \"mailto:\" links

if you want to let folks know an email address, falsify it with an expmantion of how to make it valid in your signature

ie

[email protected]

remove THEFISH to make the address valid

the spammers will still hoover up the address but it just won\'t work, unless you manually remove the false bit, which they would never do

in the early days dropping something like NOSPAM into your address worked, but they got wise to that as evertone used the same thing, so make your falsification a bit unique to you

at one point I was a 300 a day man!