Why do I keep getting porn email?

Factual Questions
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Your email address is listed on the board with that little picture icon. People can find it and put you on a list.

Get a free email at Hotmail or yahoo, use that email address instead.

There are programs like Cherry Picker that can scan web sites like this and pick out all the emails just like that. There is another version of it that can pick them from newsgroups.

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BTW, you can stop your e-mail address from showing up on these boards. Click “profile”, then “submit identification” and click the NO option in the field where it asks whether you want to display your e-mail address.

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Cristi:

I thought the idea was that, if one used the SDMB, one’s ignorance was whisked away.

Qwisp:

Yes, the truth is that you were wrong more than once: Those 'bold’s should’ve been simply 'b’s.

I don’t bother trying to filter spam; I just trash it. Almost none of it is porno; most is just wheeler-dealer stuff – I think, not from this board, but from some newsgroups and some other Websites. But I don’t use AOL or go to chat rooms. The stuff only bugs me when the same ones come in immediate multiple copies. The worst was when Yahoo didn’t jump on those who used their domain name. I e-mailed them to do something about it. Thereafter, their autoresponder kept sending me a string of multiple e-mails from them about how they couldn’t do anything and whatever. Then I called them and could only get lost in their voice-mail system without ever being able to reach a person, and no one called back. So I called adjacent numbers until I got the phone of an engineer. He said he’d do something about the problem. It all stopped and I never heard again from Yahoo. So, when in doubt, call an engineer.

Ray (ex-engineer. But don’t call me; I’ll spam you. :wink: )

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I know a lot of people who use Juno for email & never one spam of any sort except from the Juno people. lol.

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You do not RC. You only go to a lobby if you have no clue what you are doing.

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