Tip: Tracking adult spam.
 

You probably know this, but I thought I would share anyways.

If you've been submitting to TGPs, posting to message boards or even listed your e-mail address on your sites - you know how much spam you can get. New sponsors, new sites, selling content, offering hosting etc.

I use a little trick to track which sites are selling addresses. If you have a domain with unlimited aliases* (most hosts I know supports this), just include the name of the place you submit to in the user field.

Example:
If I am submitting to X-TGP, I will enter the contact address as "[email protected]" and voila - next time I receive UCE/spam, I check the headers and find "TO: x-tgp@".

* = Anything e-mailed to *@yourdomain.com will go to your master account.


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Phill ( [email protected] )
Pretty Good Porn

Good fucking idea. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif Acid Pope have been spamming webmasters silly for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time.

Thats a simple and excellent idea !

to Phill http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

But if I submit to 200-300-500 TGP's? 8)
alias for each of 500 tgp's? 8)


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Make Money, Not War!

Lust

all mail addresses are sent to one account so all you need do is myname1-500@mydomain making a record of which number belongs to who

That was a great idea. Caught my first one today! http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/wink.gif