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Originally posted by Chuck Piper:
I'm convinced this site (among millions I suppose)is being harvested for e-mail addresses by spammers. I don't know what protections Nigel can provide us. Maybe none. But I would hope that if he has help available, he will use it to protect our interests.

Chuck


I know exactly how you feel Chuck, I receive 800-1000 similar emails each day. And unfortunately there is nothing I can do if email addresses are publicly available on web pages. Mine is at the botton of all Synth Zone pages which are widely listed in the search engines, so my email gets harvested by people compiling SPAM lists. And even worse viruses use it as a forged return address, I have had viruses supposedly from me ( from some server overseas ) to myself. It all gets very tiring, I wish there was some way to validate senders email addresses. Then SPAM would diminish rapidly if the sender could actually be contacted.

You should know the BBS Profile settings do allow you to have your email address hidden if you choose. Maybe you should set that option to avoid publishing your email address.


[This message has been edited by Nigel (edited 12-04-2003).]