Comments on: Mailbox full of spam? Your fault!

By: Writing a simple web crawler in Perl | stratos.me

Writing a simple web crawler in Perl | stratos.me — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:50:24 +0000

[...] few weeks back i posted on why our mailboxes are full of spam. I mentioned there that i had created a small and very simple perl script to crawl the internet and [...]

By: Sire

Sire — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:08:50 +0000

Thanks for that mate. I will now check my blogs to make sure I remove any email links I may have left on there

By: stratosg

stratosg — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:51:07 +0000

@Sire: The main reason why people started using contact forms (besides giving an easy way of communicating) was to avoid exposing the email… When someone uses a contact form, the text is sent to the webserver which knows which mail to use. So, the mail is never exposed to the client Protecting the form from spamming it though (CAPTCHA for instance) is another thing…

By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:34:17 +0000

Would those type of scripts be able to pick up the email in ‘contact form’ plugins?

By: stratosg

stratosg — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:17:25 +0000

Well spamming is something beyond machines in my opinion. It’s creatively created every day to avoid spam detection… There are many means to protect the end user but there is no ultimate solution for it. The only thing we can do is stop exposing our email that much. Other than that just “delete” Thanks for dropping by!

By: The Almost MIllionaire

The Almost MIllionaire — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:18:33 +0000

This is really great information. I thought when I went over to gmail I would no longer have to deal with spam…boy was I wrong. I thought google had all the answers, but I guess some things are even beyond them at this point.

By: stratosg

stratosg — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:11:38 +0000

@Gry: Well that’s one tactics to be kept. But the thing is that the majority of the users just don’t appreciate their own privacy. That results on spamming to them and their friends, the the friends’ friends etc…

By: Gry dla Dzieci

Gry dla Dzieci — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:09:23 +0000

Of course it’s true. Spammers don’t magicaly aquire your email address. I suggest having one address for all the net based stuff (this one will be filled with spam) and the other one for your interpersonal contants (provided that you won’t post the address anywhere the chances of spammers getting hold of it are not high).

By: Pro-Vamsi

Pro-Vamsi — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:14:15 +0000

Oh thanks for the post!!
I expose my email to every body online..
Will use some types a contact form to get comments!!

Thanks again mate!!

By: stratosg

stratosg — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:07:57 +0000

@Funny Stuff: Well the code is not sophisticated at all. Writing it in Perl is much much much easier that writing it in Java. I don’t have the structure but i have the flexibility. Anyway i might write a post about it on the coming days… And no, this was just an experiment. I won’t turn into a spammer