Tip Of The Day: If You Don't Want Spam, Don't Publish Your E-Mail Address
Spammers steal e-mail addresses when people carelessly publish them on blogs, forums, personal websites, chat rooms, and other social web pages. Spammers regularly use automated search programs called "spambots" which scour the Internet looking for email addresses they can send their spam to. It's called "harvesting." If your e-mail address is published in its ordinary format on a webpage, spambots will collect it and add it to their list.
Here are two ways to circumvent spambots:
1. Mask your email address by publishing it as an image rather than as text using a photo publishing tool.
2. Use replacements for the symbols in your e-mail address. If your email address is myname@mycompany.com, try publishing it like this: myname(at)mycompany(dot)com.
Comments: 1
so what do you do if a you register on a websuite giving your email and personal information and you start to recieve spam and there is no unregister option. ps it said my information was encripted in its data base and there is no way of removing it. some one help me please because i fear this could lead to id theft