Steve, As you probably already know, there are a host of ways these
creeps get your email. Two of the most common are: if you ever used this
particular email addy to fill out any form online, and if you have a web
page, does the email addy show up on it? A web crawler could have
plucked it off a webpage (if you have one).
Trisha,
Some day (soon I hope), Team Tierra Buena will have its own web page.
Let me assure you that NO email addresses will appear on the site.
Whenever I fill out a form online, I first create a disposable email
from Sneakemail (
http://sneakemail.com). I have on occasion also made
use of Spam Gourmet (
http://www.spamgourmet.com), but Sneakemail seems
to meet my needs more closely. There are probably others, too. I would
suggest to everyone that they become familiar with both, as they can go
a long way towards keeping these weasels out of your inbox.
But I like to have a "real" email address for use in my "real"
correspondence. I'm sure Jason and Brian do everything they can to keep
our email addresses out of the hands of these pond scum. Apparently
there is no correlation between greed and stupidity, so the crawlers get
more and more sophisticated, while our state's congressional
representatives keep voting against any legislation that might put some
real teeth into ending this curse.
I knew the address would get compromised sooner or later. I also trust
my spam filter, SpamKiller, although I will no longer be upgrading it
since it got bought by McAfee. It caught this piece of poop I wrote
about. What saddens me is now the floodgates will open, and I'll have to
change it to something else. We'll hang on as long as we can.
Thanks to all who responded.
Steve
Team Tierra Buena
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