Comments on: How To Totally Screw Up An Email Campaign

By: 5ubliminal

5ubliminal — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:58:31 +0000

@corey: Don’t lie! You just want to use the image on your site to enforce your authority but provide no linkback to those who certified you.

I’m evil 🙂

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:35:41 +0000

oooh, that IS evil. 😀

By: corey

corey — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:05:22 +0000

donna, your comments made me laugh. i probably would have signed up for the badge so i could pull out a code fingerprint that would be found on all pages that are using the image, searched to find all those sites, and THEN blogged. but i’m evil.

By: 5ubliminal

5ubliminal — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:03:55 +0000

I signup with a different email account (self-hosted not gmal cr4p) to every site i deal with. At least I know who the idiots selling emails are.

And Outlook does a pretty good job at stopping spam … and seems to hate this site. Had to white list it.

By: g1smd

g1smd — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:32:39 +0000

… or you can use a separate throwaway email address to subscribe to sites that might start spamming you.

Most people that I know have upwards of five email addresses, each purposed for different things.

By: 5ubliminal

5ubliminal — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:13:28 +0000

g1smd … do you do affiliate marketing in dirty areas such as pills? If you go you will know that 99% of pill affiliate programmes have their databases broken in quite often and/or sell the emails and personal details to spammers.

So just removing your email won’t help. Sometimes you have to hand your email over (whether you like it or not) to others and the spam comes in multiples of 1000s / day.

Even individual idiots sell emails from anyone they can so … ! You can’t protect from spam unless you don’t use email or don’t read it 🙂

By: g1smd

g1smd — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:30:43 +0000

I have helped a large number of people reduce their spam from more than a thousand per day to under a hundred per week.

The key was to remove their email address from the web so that it was no longer able to be found by the spammers.

Contact forms with CAPTCHA, and email addresses protected using a JavaScript function have kept them out of the spotlight.

By: Web Design in Canada

Web Design in Canada — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:17:53 +0000

My inbox is always jammed full of spam, I just switched to Spamfighter for Outlook which helps a lot, but just the sheer amounts are staggering. I’ve always been baffled by spammers though you’d think they would be smart enough to have email names and emails that look vaguely similar. They just make it too easy to filter 🙂

By: Luis Neng

Luis Neng — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:40:36 +0000

I received one that is even better, the sender just sent the e-mail to multiples address on the “to:” field.
The result, my e-mail address was published to another hundred of peoples that I don’t know and I also had access to another hundred e-mails to do some serious spamming! (not)
🙂

By: Jim Boykin

Jim Boykin — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:10:30 +0000

got that one too. glad you blogged about it!