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+- Using web bots. Similar to search engine bots, some "spider" applications are intended to parse web pages
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+and collect relevant information. If your mail adress is somewhere on the web, it is likely to be archived by one
+or many of these bots.
+
+A solution: you can filter the referrers to your site. Either using server side code, like jsp, php or asp,
+or using a htaccess on Apache which will filter all connections to your site at once.
+By doing this, you can isolate some well known bots and send them to the nether regions of Bugimus. I mean... well,
+nevermind.
+
+- Some websites will resell information about you.
+Bluntly put, yes, some will do.
+One "solution" against this consists in using two email adresses,
+one public, for subscribing to online services, and one private, for communicating with your contacts.
+
+- Dictionaries.
+There's not much you can do once someone runs a dictionary driven email adress builder at your domain.
+Such a "builder" will use common name dictionaries, and language dictionaries, to build and target
+all possible mail recipients in a given domain.
+The only thing you can do against this is using a very original mail adress.
+
+Anyhow, even a box you never used will, at some point, receive spam. It's been tested,
+by me: a useless box I had never opened, nor used for two years contained about 40 spams the first time I checked it.
+
+ANYHOW, BEWARE OF OUTLOOK "PREVIEW" PANE AND NEVER REPLY TO SPAM:
+replying to spam == telling to the spammer that you do exist and that this email target is valid.
+previewing a potential spam, if it contains images, can also tell the spammer your adress is
+valid, because images embedded in mail can be provided by a remote site.
+Once you've seen the image, the remote site already has got a confirmation your adress is valid.
+
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+(Created by Emperor on 05-17-2004 17:35)
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