Darkniciad
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First off, a spam-catcher email address that you can use for initial responses until you trust a contact is a good idea. Just copy the feedback email and paste it into a new message in your spam-catcher account. The email address of the sender is included in the message, so you can then quickly cut-n-paste it into the "To" box.
I just thought I'd pass along something I've been using as a tool before responding to email comments. I've only caught one spammer/harvester this way through Lit feedback ( a couple of minutes ago ), but spammers are increasingly using humans to do the initial gathering in order to bypass automated controls such as capcha, then passing the harvested addresses or created accounts off to robo-spam programs.
Before you respond to any email, go to this site and plug in the email in the search box.
http://www.stopforumspam.com/
This database is very well supported, and constantly updated. While this site is primarily oriented toward forums and blogs, those same spammers are branching out to find new methods, and so the emails and IPs they use for other spammy activities show up here as well.
If you have a forum or blog, and are allowed to modify it with hooks, mods, widgets, etc., check out the resources page and pray there's a tool there for the software you use. I was having about 4-5 spammers per day bypass capcha, email validation, and another spam database. Installed the hooks for this database, and ZERO spam registrations have made it through to my blog or forum since then.
Get an API key and your forum/blog also becomes part of the solution by reporting the spammers to the database as it tells them to fuck off because their spam isn't welcome in your house.
The database also has the ability to convert those masked email addys such as my.s.pamm.y.na.me and myspam.mmy.name into myspammyname and index them all in one place ( this is a common spammer technique to get past email bans ) so it will catch them no matter how many hundreds of these similar throwaway emails they have created.
It's a lifesaver, and as the spammers increasingly employ poor people for pennies in China and the Russian Federation to harvest your email and spam you to death, it's eventually going to become a necessity if you respond to email feedback.
I just thought I'd pass along something I've been using as a tool before responding to email comments. I've only caught one spammer/harvester this way through Lit feedback ( a couple of minutes ago ), but spammers are increasingly using humans to do the initial gathering in order to bypass automated controls such as capcha, then passing the harvested addresses or created accounts off to robo-spam programs.
Before you respond to any email, go to this site and plug in the email in the search box.
http://www.stopforumspam.com/
This database is very well supported, and constantly updated. While this site is primarily oriented toward forums and blogs, those same spammers are branching out to find new methods, and so the emails and IPs they use for other spammy activities show up here as well.
If you have a forum or blog, and are allowed to modify it with hooks, mods, widgets, etc., check out the resources page and pray there's a tool there for the software you use. I was having about 4-5 spammers per day bypass capcha, email validation, and another spam database. Installed the hooks for this database, and ZERO spam registrations have made it through to my blog or forum since then.
Get an API key and your forum/blog also becomes part of the solution by reporting the spammers to the database as it tells them to fuck off because their spam isn't welcome in your house.
The database also has the ability to convert those masked email addys such as my.s.pamm.y.na.me and myspam.mmy.name into myspammyname and index them all in one place ( this is a common spammer technique to get past email bans ) so it will catch them no matter how many hundreds of these similar throwaway emails they have created.
It's a lifesaver, and as the spammers increasingly employ poor people for pennies in China and the Russian Federation to harvest your email and spam you to death, it's eventually going to become a necessity if you respond to email feedback.
Hope it helps others keep the current tidal wave of spammers out of their inboxes, forums, and blog comments.
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