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earley-bird
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I am ready for something...but I don't know what!
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spamming
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« Last Edit: Thursday 19 January 06 17:37 GMT (UK) by earley-bird »
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Earley, Holborn London
Bruce, London
Kangeisser London
Lawlor, Widnes Lancashire
Hagan Widnes Lancashire
Whitchurch, Westminster
Cooper, Westminster
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Steve Ley
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Are you saying Ancestry send you 40 e-mails a day?
I have been a member of theirs for years and only recieve update e-mails probaly not even one a week.
As to recieving spam from other companies that is a draw back of internet age, there is a lot you can do to lessen the amount you get but some will always get through.
Steve
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Census images Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk  Researching LEY, MEATS, LEVER (Nottingham) KERRIAGE/KERRIDGE/CARRIAGE (Norfolk, Cambridge,Lincoln) WISEMAN (Cambridge) UNWIN (Staffordshire,Derbyshire) FRANCES/FRANCIS (Norfolk) And BELL, McKENZIE and GRAY in Scotland. |
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I'm saying this with everything crossed, I too use Ancestry and I only receive an email usually their Newsletter, about once a month or less, and I only receive 1 or 2 spam in about 3 months.
I don't know why you are receiving so many, perhaps you need to filter your mail in some way?
The techies on the technical board will know what to do,
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'Tricia
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No spam at all.
Just a thought - is your Email address on the web anywhere or on one of these boards. If so, the 'robots' will get you.
Tricia
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Census transcriptions are Crown Copyright from www.NationalArchives.gov.uk******************************************************** Nottinghamshire,Bulwell: Bowskill, Everley, Gent, Haywood, Houghton, Wilkinson. Nottinghamshire, Mansfield:- Baxter Buckinghamshire: Charlesworth, Fowler Derbyshire:Brimington:- Adams, Baxter London: Bird, Charlesworth, Coleman, Desmoulins, Everard, Jarman, Quinton, Richards Italy: Gioffredi |
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Veloce
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Re: spamming
« Reply #5 on: Friday 20 January 06 05:39 GMT (UK) » |
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Greetings All,
May I suggest that you use a "throwaway" address for any groups that you join? I use a free hotmail account address and it is quite easy to filter out the unwanted e-mail.
I very rarely give out my main e-mail address. Goes a long way to protect one's privacy.
Regards Ian.
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Wigtownshire: Rankin, Parks, Auld, Cosh, Ingles, Anderson Ross and Cromarty: Ross, MacLennan Donegal: Mulroy Durham: Dunn, Maltby Shetland: Colvin, Robertson Shropshire: Allman Kent: Cheeseman, Dyke Quebec: Duval Census information is crown copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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David Douglas
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"It's comin' yet for a' that ... 24 MB at 1.3 Kb/s
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Re: spamming
« Reply #6 on: Friday 20 January 06 07:18 GMT (UK) » |
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Displaying your correct email address on a web site is a sure way of attracting spam. If the web site doesn't hide your email address (like rootschat does), you should disguise it in some way that people can understand but automated tools cannot e.g myname(at)mydomain.com, mynameXXX@mydomain.com REMOVE XXX
etc. These do have the disadvantage that you can't click on the link to send a mail. I've fixed this on the web site I run by assembling the link in javascript after the page loads - the automated 'spambots' cannot find such links. For webmasters - see code at the bottom of this post. Feel free to use it, modify it.
Another way of getting spam is to chose an obvious email address. If you have your own domain and can choose your email address, names like david@mydomain.com, treasurer@mydomain.com, etc are vulnerable. I discovered this when I created email addresses for office-bearers in an association I'm the webmaster for, they started getting spam mails within the hour despite these addresses not appearing anywhere on the web. So obviously spammers continually send millions of mails to using electronic dictionaries,lists of surnames, first names, place names, also with common combinations. Perhaps only one in a million of these 'guessed' names exists, but they don't care -it's not costing them anything.
The third risk is not one you can easily avoid. If someone you correspond with gets a virus, their address list can be stolen by the hacker. What you can do is avoid exposing others to unnecessary risk: don't send an email to a long list of recipients with all their email addresses visible unless you want them to know each other's email addresses. I get this sometimes when a friend passes on a joke to everybody they know. Unfortunately, if one of the recipients is infected with a virus, you've given it the email addresses of all your (former?) friends!
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To send us an email -
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
<!--
contactme("myname", "mydomain", "click here");
//-->
</script>
(if you don't specify a top level domain eg. "com", "co.uk", it uses "com" by default (the dot is added in the function)
whereas you'd normally write:
To send us an email - click here
Both will display:
To send us and email - click here
(with the 'click here' being underlined and active).
<!--
// use this function to hide email adresses from spambots
function contactme( myname, dom, linktext, tld, style )
{
// arguments: myname - user name
// dom - domain name
// tld - top level domain name - set to "com" if not specified
// linktext - text for link. If not specified, email adress is used
// style - can specify style
// tld, linktext and style are optional - can be "", or argument not specified
//examples: contactme( "david", "mydomain", "click here", "co.uk", "color: #366990; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12");
// contactme( "david", "hotmail" );
// texts written in html codes help hide address from spambots.
// Those written as actual letters are required - else link not interpreted as html
if ( typeof tld == 'undefined' || tld == "" )
{
tld = "com"; // see oh emm as default
}
var dot = ".";
var atsign = "@";
var bigger = ">"; //">";
var al = "a";
var lunk1 = "hr";
var lunk2 = "ef";
var lige = "=";
var dobcit = """;
var post = "MaiL";
var til = "To";
var colo = ":";
var postadr = myname + atsign + dom + dot + tld;
if ( typeof linktext == 'undefined' || linktext == "" )
{
linktext = postadr;
}
document.write( '<' + al + ' ' + lunk1 + lunk2 + '=\"');
document.write( post + til + colo + postadr );
document.write( '\"' )
if ( typeof style != 'undefined' && style != "" )
{
document.write( ' style=' + '\"' + style + '\"');
}
document.write( '>' + linktext + '</' + al + bigger );
}
//-->
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Researching: Towers family of Paisley; Argyll: Carmichael, McQueen; W. Lothian: Aitken, Smeal, Cunningham, Brash, Easton; Stirlingshire: Bruce, Henderson, Galloway; Midlothian: Gillis, Philp; Ayrshire: Robertson, McMurren, Bone, Eaglesham, Scoffield, Frew, McLatchie; Moray: Rennie, Stronach; N. Ireland: Douglas, Wray, Steen; Bermuda: Outerbridge, Seon
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