Protect Your Email Address When Posting

by on May 1, 2007 | 2 comments

If you are a blogger or frequently post on message boards, be sure to use caution when posting your email address. Many of us already have a “junk” email which we use to register for sites and such, however posting this email address further clutters a (probably) already cluttered inbox.

Instead of using a junk account, consider “masking” your email when you post it. For example, use:

myemail@mydomain.comREMOVE

This way, an email harvester program wouldn’t pick up a valid email, but a real user would know to remove the text “REMOVE” dropped on to the end. Of course any variation would work, but taking a small step like this can go a long way to helping prevent spam.

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  • PJ

    ANother thing to consider here is which you has left out and very surpise you not thought of it is.

    Sign up for google mail or yahoo mail or hotmail (some bloggers refuse hotmail accounts) and use that as your main bloggers email refernces instead of your real email.

    All spam are then filters by the mail server at their end rather than you having to deal with it, only downside to this is 1) read the email via website which can be somewhat consuming alittle in term of effort. 2) more email acount to remember and to remember where to go to read.

    The upside to this is you can still blog from anywhere in the world and have access to google/yahoo emails for the blog etc.

  • http://www.cheapstreamingmp3.com Michael

    I haven’t used this service but here is a site that offers both a temporary inbox and a temporary email forwarding address for use at forums or any site where email harvesting may be a problem.

    http://www.temporaryinbox.com/

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