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SUMMARY: Electronic Portfolios and Email Spam Robots
Subject:SUMMARY: Electronic Portfolios and Email Spam Robots From:Jl Cc <jccwriter -at- YAHOO -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 15 Aug 1999 09:16:23 -0700
My thanks to Lisa Higgins, Susan Gallagher, Cirrus Matusek, Tracey
Moore, Frederique Courard-Hauri, and Dianne Blake for their responses
(listed, unedited, below) to my cry for help.
I have decided to include my email hyperlink on my (under construction)
Web site for my customers' convenience. I'll deal later with any email
spamming robots.
TYVM,
Jenise Cook-Crabbe, M.A.
jccwrite -at- yahoo -dot- com
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Whatever you do, please DON'T make it more difficult for prospective
clients and employers to get in touch with you.
Yes, you will get some spam. Report it to postmasters, and report rogue
domains to their upstream providers, but do not let your personal
convenience win out over your users' needs. We tech writers gotta be
selfless that way. (Lisa Higgins)
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My web site has been up for about two years now; it's collected a lot
of cobwebs in those two years <g>, but not a lot of spam. I'd guess I
get about three email ads a week, maybe five a week when the email
spammers have been particularly busy.
And over the last two years I've had 8 or 10 visitors send me questions
or comments about the site.
The real trick to avoiding spam is to not go into a lot of chat rooms
and never never never reply to have your name removed from the list.
(Susan Gallagher)
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wow! that is an interesting scenario; i had not heard of that
happening! that might explain some of the weird spam i've been getting
at the email address listed on my site! (Cirrus Matusek)
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I run 6 web sites with my email address on them, two of them I've had
for over a year, and I haven't had any problem at all. All of the web
sites are registered with search engines, btw. I don't have any funky
code to keep the robots out. What is it exactly that they do to offend?
(Tracey Moore)
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I have only had one experience of someone I don't know sending me a
short email about how I should use them if I ever need creative design
work.
I have had people email me after finding my site becuase they were
looking for an editor. I consider that a success (even though in the
end we couldn't agree on a rate!) (Frederique Courard-Hauri)
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No spam received yet that I could associate with my web site, and I
have placed my site in several search engines. (Dianne Blake)
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