Comments on: Will you get spammed if you tweet your email address? http://www.burndowneasy.com/will-you-get-spammed-if-you-tweet-your-email-address/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:12:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Lindop http://www.burndowneasy.com/will-you-get-spammed-if-you-tweet-your-email-address/#comment-24 David Lindop Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:54:14 +0000 http://www.burndowneasy.com/?p=3#comment-24 @TheXFrame Sorry to hear that and thanks for sharing. The truth is that most email addresses will find their way onto databases sooner or later (I worked in email marketing many years ago!). Spam filters are much better than they used to be and Gmail has one of the best in my opinion. Once your email address has been scraped it will probably always be spammed. It's unfortunate but unavoidable. Your best bet is to install some decent spam filter (if you're using a private email solution) or use a well-known provider like Gmail. Using @googlemail.com instead of @gmail.com won't make any difference - the scrapers are likely programmed to look for anything that matches [text]@[text].[text] and add it to their database. @TheXFrame Sorry to hear that and thanks for sharing.

The truth is that most email addresses will find their way onto databases sooner or later (I worked in email marketing many years ago!). Spam filters are much better than they used to be and Gmail has one of the best in my opinion.

Once your email address has been scraped it will probably always be spammed. It’s unfortunate but unavoidable. Your best bet is to install some decent spam filter (if you’re using a private email solution) or use a well-known provider like Gmail.

Using @googlemail.com instead of @gmail.com won’t make any difference – the scrapers are likely programmed to look for anything that matches @. and add it to their database.

]]> By: TheXFrame http://www.burndowneasy.com/will-you-get-spammed-if-you-tweet-your-email-address/#comment-23 TheXFrame Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:12:48 +0000 http://www.burndowneasy.com/?p=3#comment-23 Okay, so last night I made this mistake and put out my e-mail because I wanted someone to send me something. As soon as I did that, I got about 3-4 spam e-mails. Went to bed, woke up this morning and half of my inbox was spam from people that obviously got it from Twitter. I deleted the post from my Twitter page but it is not deleted from the server since I can still find it if I search. Are you telling me that eventually the spammers or spam bots or whatever is used will not be able to find my e-mail anymore or am I going to always get spam and be forced to make a new e-mail? I see you put "@googlemail.com" as your e-mail as opposed to "@gmail.com" -- do you think that made a big difference? I don't see anyone really giving their e-mail as @googlemail.com. I bet you'd see different results if you put @gmail.com. Let me know please I really want to figure this out. I don't want to make a new e-mail if I don't need to. Okay, so last night I made this mistake and put out my e-mail because I wanted someone to send me something. As soon as I did that, I got about 3-4 spam e-mails. Went to bed, woke up this morning and half of my inbox was spam from people that obviously got it from Twitter. I deleted the post from my Twitter page but it is not deleted from the server since I can still find it if I search.

Are you telling me that eventually the spammers or spam bots or whatever is used will not be able to find my e-mail anymore or am I going to always get spam and be forced to make a new e-mail?

I see you put “@googlemail.com” as your e-mail as opposed to “@gmail.com” — do you think that made a big difference? I don’t see anyone really giving their e-mail as @googlemail.com. I bet you’d see different results if you put @gmail.com.

Let me know please I really want to figure this out. I don’t want to make a new e-mail if I don’t need to.

]]> By: David Lindop http://www.burndowneasy.com/will-you-get-spammed-if-you-tweet-your-email-address/#comment-4 David Lindop Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:55:44 +0000 http://www.burndowneasy.com/?p=3#comment-4 The email that I received did actually get caught by Gmail's spam filter, but it was the only one. Another thing worth remembering is that Gmail's spam folder deletes everything after 30 days, but the test ran from 10 July - 1 Aug. The email that I received did actually get caught by Gmail’s spam filter, but it was the only one. Another thing worth remembering is that Gmail’s spam folder deletes everything after 30 days, but the test ran from 10 July – 1 Aug.

]]> By: digeratti http://www.burndowneasy.com/will-you-get-spammed-if-you-tweet-your-email-address/#comment-3 digeratti Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:15:28 +0000 http://www.burndowneasy.com/?p=3#comment-3 also, gmail's spam filter is pretty good. Im pretty sure they caught some... i think another way to test this is to test it on an xyzd.com domain you own but dont use, create an email address archibold.teriyaki@xyzd.com and within your hosting company for the xyzd.com site remove the spam filter.... ...just a thought. also, gmail’s spam filter is pretty good. Im pretty sure they caught some… i think another way to test this is to test it on an xyzd.com domain you own but dont use, create an email address archibold.teriyaki@xyzd.com and within your hosting company for the xyzd.com site remove the spam filter….

…just a thought.

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