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my spamgourmet address is under attack

PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 12:47 pm
by benalt613
A spammer has my address and has automated spamming it by prefixing it with random letters sending me tons of spam. It has taken me ages to zero out all the created addresses and hide them.

I think it would be good to have a way of hiding addresses etc. enmass by do the mods in a table form the same way that the disposable addresses are displayed.

Also, I'd like to see the opposite of a watch word idea - where you can specify a word that should NOT be in an address - i.e. you specify a word from the disposable address the spammer is using to create addresses. This way the way you create your disposables is not controlled or impacted. This is much better than the "watchword" idea.

PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 1:55 am
by Paranoid2000
The prefix option is a simple way to block the "random characters address" spam and you can change it (without affecting previous aliases) if the spammer starts to evolve a degree of intelligence...

As for mass hiding, I'd agree that having checkboxes by each alias for basic options (set to zero, add 10, hide) allowing multiple modification would be easier - though having a webpage with a few hundred checkboxes may choke some browsers.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:28 am
by sg-since03
Also, I'd like to see the opposite of a watch word idea - where you can specify a word that should NOT be in an address - i.e. you specify a word from the disposable address the spammer is using to create addresses. This way the way you create your disposables is not controlled or impacted. This is much better than the "watchword" idea.

This has been discussed and rejected as impractical or ineffective. See the thread "Addresses created in my account not by me!" http://bbs.spamgourmet.com/viewtopic.php?p=5190

There's a foolproof solution. It's inconvenient, but ot works. See this post: http://bbs.spamgourmet.com/viewtopic.ph ... ight=#5321

A corollary issue, which SysKoll resolved, is discussed here: http://bbs.spamgourmet.com/viewtopic.php?t=1081 ("Suggestion: "Don't log for hidden" OR rejected [@]").