I can't remember which thread it was but you had mentioned earlier about receiving e-mails for people requesting the password to the forum.

I got one yesterday and just deleted the request.

Is there anyway to avoid this, other than deletions?

Unfortunately no. If your email software allows it you can block the sender or set it so the specific email address is automatically classed as junk and is deleted, but other than that there is very little that can be done. This is one of the reasons why we're changing the software.

Dave

Thanks Mr. Spice!

Will download updated version of spy wear and firewall. Just when I got rid of the SPAM problem, it lurks in the shadows and never goes away. AUGH!

Stauri, you can just not list your email address.

I get e-mails from people I do not know. And from sites I never have visited. What happens is that companies buy a list of addresses. If you have given your address to a business or been on any list it can be bought. I usually just block the sender or report it as spam.

Sometimes it is a bulk mail out. People just putting in addresses. Like a telemarketer only instead of phone calls it is e-mails.

Yeah isn't there something like a tracking cookie that kinda does that too?

The main culprits are spambots. They crawl all over the internet looking for email addresses to collect.

The only way to avoid them is to not list your email address anywhere. If there is ever a need to put your email address in a text block the convention is;

admin(at)lynsaysands.net

Without the @ symbol the spambots won't recognise it as an email address and therefore won't collect it - and most people will understand that the (at) needs to be replaced with @.

Very Clever

I'm not plugging Earthlink..but I have a suspected spam folder on my on-line mail...once a day they send me a summary of what is in that folder so I can see if there is anybody in it, that I want in my address book...if not the spam is deleted after a few days.
They also gave me fake email address folders...so if I need to put an address somewhere, that I'm not to sure of, I can use the address for one of those folders and the mail comes to that folder and if I don't like the email I can block that sender. They also have a great virus program...it's sucks allot of memory though:) I haven' caught a virus since installing it. I was ever so pleased when I found out the spam folder because I was getting 50 to 60 spams a day. I'm sure other ISP's have something similar. If you use OE...you can also block email you don't want.