Email security

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

Having just read a thread where several posters gave their full email addresses, could I just suggest that this is NOT a good thing to do on a public forum.

"[email protected]" is an easy thing for scraping software to recognise and then send you an email with a nasty attachment that you won't want on your computer. Best practice is to put at least "name [at] domain dot com" or send a PM with your email address.

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Us grumpy mods usually remove email addresses when we spot them.

That said, my mytimemedia email address is all over the site and I get very little spam that isn't blocked automatically.

Neil

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

email harvesting from web-pages judging from my near 20 year experience of having my contact address on an open web page is very much a thing of the past – maybe 1 or 2 a week always caught by my spam filter (a professional paid for one) down from the several hundred a week 5 or so years ago. That said I do not open attachments from 1st time posters nor do I allow the utter stupidity of looking at HTML coded emails that could contain javascript – likewise any email that uses encoding of such HTML text is ditched immediately tho some ‘honest’ organisations such as the British Library tend to use this trick – I see no good reason why plain text emails cannot be used thos I guess it is the need to handle all languages’ character sets in the same way that is the cause.

Edited By Frances IoM on 01/11/2019 17:30:27

[OldironParticipant @oldiron]

Had my email addy on many sites including P2P forums and not had any problems. I could count the "bad" emails on one hand that made it through my spam filters in the last few of years. It makes me wonder why anyone would open a link from someone they do not know or were not expecting to contact them Just follow the standard advise that is all over the web on email use. I concur with Frances IoM above.

regards

Edited By Oldiron on 01/11/2019 19:00:47

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