# Just having a website means getting spam **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 14, 2000, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-having-a-website-means-getting-spam/45568 "2000-12-14T17:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![crystaljones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@crystaljones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crystaljones)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-having-a-website-means-getting-spam/45568/1 "2000-12-14T17:32:35Z")
What really pisses me off is how I have a website and I get spam emails from people I’ve never heard of. I’ve never visited their website. All these spam emails are for get rich schemes, scams and porno sites. I DON’T CARE about get rich schemes and I don’t hang around porno sites. Am I not the only one who has a website and get spammed ? I’m interested in knowing if anyone has a website and they get spammed too. 1)I can ignore these spams and just delete them. (This is a waste of my valuable time having to sort through the good emails and the garbage emails) 2)I can report them to abuse@\_\_\_\_\_.com but nothing can be done anyway. (Most of the spam emails don’t even have the IP numbers, so if there is no IP number, then the ISP can do nothing) 3)I can spam them back but why bother sinking to their level. Do these people who spam NOT have a life ? I mean if they went through all that trouble to get my website email, they must have awful a lot of time on their hands. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-having-a-website-means-getting-spam/45568/2 "2000-12-14T18:15:42Z")
It may not be just the fact that you have a website. I get spam because I have an eBay account. My email is also publicly accessible on this board. Anyone can write a script to get a bunch of addresses from either. If it gets to be too much I’ll open a different [mail.com](http://mail.com) account. The only way to not get spam is to not have an email address. I can spot spam by the subject (and sender usually), so I just delete during my regular reading of my email. It’s really not that much of a waste of time to press one key. It’s my friends that forward me spam that I get pissed about, since I usually open and read things from them. ARRRGHH!! Fucking donkey raping shit eaters. (So I’m not original, YCJSI) Man, some people have no clue. ---
**Author:** ![Eft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@Eft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eft)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-having-a-website-means-getting-spam/45568/3 "2000-12-14T22:27:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by crystaljones \* > Am I not the only one who has a website and get spammed ? I’m interested in knowing if anyone has a website and they get spammed too. I don’t have a personal Web site, but sure, I get spam. I get some spam from people who’ve got my email address from somewhere online (it’s available in some places). I get even more from people using random email address generators and thus bulk mailing everyone in a given domain. (I now have an account in a well-known national ISP now; sometimes I miss my local smaller domain that no one had ever heard of, as my spam level has skyrocketed since I switched.) So, yes, I get spam, and it’s not because I have a personal Web site, it’s because I have an email address. I mostly just delete them (it doesn’t take _that_ long–I can tell that an email with a header like TEEN XXX SQUIRREL-ON-SQUIRREL ACTION!!! probably isn’t something I want to read so I just hit the delete key). If I’m in a pissy mood, then I email [abuse@whatever.com](mailto:abuse@whatever.com). But as **c\_goat** said, it annoys me more when friends pass on the latest hysterically funny forward. > [@](#): > > Do these people who spam NOT have a life ? I mean if they went through all that trouble to get my website email, they must have awful a lot of time on their hands. It may take little or no effort to get your email address. They may not even know that it’s your address, if they’re using a bulk address generator. It’s roughly equivalent to telemarketers who used the automatic dialers. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-having-a-website-means-getting-spam/45568/4 "2000-12-14T22:49:38Z")
And yet you, crystaljones, have a link on your site to splatternet. I think you’re begging for spam if you provide an arena for shit like that. Go away until you have a valid complaint. This one is pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Eft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@Eft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eft)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-having-a-website-means-getting-spam/45568/5 "2000-12-15T00:56:16Z")
I hadn’t noticed before that you have your Web site URL in your .sig file. And I just checked your profile–yup, you’re freely emailable. If “those people who spam” were indeed collecting email addresses by hand, then you’d be making it as easy as possible. If deleting unsolicited email is such a bother, **crystaljones** , then you could start by not sharing your contact information with the 11,000 registered members of this board. :rolleyes: