Spammed to Death

I was hoping someone might be able to help me kill the spam.

I don't have my email posted on my site. I use a cool form that I got from this site.

I barely, if at all show up on Google or any of the other ones.

I used to try to contact the orginators (I have become an expert email address hunter), but since the most of them orginate in other countries I figure that is a waste of time asking them to not send me their spam.

I have yet to see where asking to be removed from lists has worked.

I have spam guard and I have filters (maxed out).

I have a Verio Bronze account (http://www.verio.com) and they are an excellent hosting site.

I average about 150 emails a day and my site is nothing but one big blog. No pics, No downloads, just text. No one ever visits it but me.

It is my testing ground for what ever I really want to do or learn how to do.

Can anyone help with this?

The easiest thing to do would be to change your e-mail address. If you use the same one for websites you have to sign up with as your main one, you're often asking for it. While I can verify that devshed doesn't send spam, not all sites are so ethical. Especially ones that might be slightly questionable on their ethics in the first place (adult content, illegal downloads, etc).

I use a lot of e-mail accounts. I generally use yoursite@mydomain.com when I register to a site. I have to take the time to set up a forward. If I notice spam coming to that box I note where it all started from then close the mailbox. You should be able to do all this with your verio account. Long, long, long ago I hosted with them before pricewars made them cost prohibitive (they probably changed their plans around since).

This is why you're getting more and more spam. Once they know it's a valid address, you're screwed.I do this too. Works great.

heh, i havn't had a spam problem since I did some sort of email list advertising for my site.

All I did was close the account (it was free anyway) but if you have outlook or a cpanel hosting account, you can easily kill off the spam.

thanks for the tips. I have had good hosting with Verio. And they are a bit pricey but, I get excellent tech support from them.

The idea of closing the account and setting up a new one sounds real good to me.

I will look into this.

I don't go to porn sites or illeagal download sites. I learned that lesson watching others pay the price.

I was thinking that it came from me having my email address on the website. And I have had the main website for my business since 1994. I have never changed it since.

I had web hosting with good people before Verio but, they bought the first company I hosted with (can't remember the name) and the second one (Best.com).

Thanks,

CS