[PLUG-TALK] Online greeting cards - DON'T!

[AthlonRob]

> If you are ever tempted to use one of those online greeting card
> sites, DON'T.  If one of your friends or relatives does, admonish
> them with a two by four.  These sites collect email addresses for
> spammers.  One of my wife's relatives gave her address to one of
> these criminal organizations, and now she (with one email address)
> is gettimg more spam than I get with a half-dozen.   And that is
> AFTER grey-listing and Spamassassin; at the front end, she must be
> getting three or four spams a minute.  Time to re-tune Spamassassin.

I hate those online greeting cards because they suck...

Long ago I decided hiding my email address was a waste of time.  Spammers
are going to get my address eventually... why try and delay the
inevitable?

So I put it out there all over the place and don't care if it lands on
spammers' lists.

I believe if your spam fighting technique relies on hiding your email
address from spammers, you're going to find yourself in a world of hurt
when the spammers DO get your address (as you can probably testify to
today).

Rob