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Spam to encoded email

Disturbing. I’m getting spam on an email address that I had thought was safely javascript protected. This means that unscrupulous mass email marketers have either broken through the encoding, or they’re harvesting addresses manually to add to their insiduous spam lists.

How much spam do you get in a day?

This was written by brownpau. Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2002, at 8:45 pm. Filed under spam. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

7 Comments

  1. Gary Petersen wrote:

    Easily 30-40 messages per day.

    Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 8:51 pm | Permalink
  2. Valerie wrote:

    On my worst account it can be as much as 50/day.

    Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 10:28 pm | Permalink
  3. The Dane wrote:

    Ha. I signed a post on Brandon’s php/javascript comment system as theDane@exegetica.com and recently he’s been getting spammail to that account. And that’s the only place I’ve ever used the e-ddress. Spooky, huh?

    Sunday, June 23, 2002 at 12:45 am | Permalink
  4. Vix wrote:

    on various e-mail addresses up to 10. Sometimes all I get is spam!

    Sunday, June 23, 2002 at 2:05 am | Permalink
  5. reggie wrote:

    around 10-30. it depends. when i was on hotmail (eons ago), i used to get around 50+ spam mails in one day. eek.

    Sunday, June 23, 2002 at 3:56 am | Permalink
  6. Tek wrote:

    Wow, compared to you guys, I get a remarkable tally (hotmail, domain mail & postmark): about 5-8/day. FIFTY PLUS IS WOW?!

    Sunday, June 23, 2002 at 4:59 am | Permalink
  7. Richard wrote:

    I get over 200 a day on my Hotmail account, but that’s without spam protection. *With* spam protection it’s 20 or so. (It’s because I use that account to very infrequently post to Usenet).

    One better (if still temporary) solution would be to have an email form done in PHP. They’re easy to make.

    Non-sequitur: temporary.com is owned by Yahoo.

    Sunday, June 23, 2002 at 7:06 pm | Permalink