Comments on: How to Hide Your Email from Harvesting Programs

By: picture hosting

picture hosting — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:00:57 +0000

Thank you for your help!

By: Robby

Robby — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:35:04 +0000

Also a great online tool for temp email addresses is spamgourmet. You can create temp addresses on the fly in the following format:

unigue name.number of emails you want to recieve.your nickname@spamgourmet.com

The email is automatically created and after the number of emails you set the rest gets eaten. You can increase the number manually afterwards on the site.

By: Frank J

Frank J — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:05:43 +0000

Dede,

It’s a always the simple things we overlook, I do it to. Thanks for the comment!

By: Dede

Dede — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:20:41 +0000

Great article and I have been careless of this in the past! I have spam in every corner of my life it seems:( You deserved a stumble:)

By: Frank J

Frank J — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:24:59 +0000

Mac,

There are many methods, but this one will prevent harvest programs from grabbing your email.

By: mac

mac — Sat, 09 May 2009 07:32:27 +0000

I don’t agree with using at and dot if you are really being careful.
To collect email you need to write a program to look for the character @ then:
1 collect each letter prior to @ until you hit a space
2 collect each letter after the @ until you hit a space

one step slower (because “at” will appear more often than @) of a program will look for the characters at followed by a space, then collect letters forward until it hits a space
then
after the space if the next character set is one of the following dot ‘dot’ “dot” (dot)
collect it then the next set of character until you hit a space.

If you want to write out you address you can say my gmail address is UserName
If you can assume that people are smart enough to figure it out, my address is UserName@geemail.com or UserName@Yahooo.com

I have my name as a domain name, but I use gmail because it works like a free filter. Collect all my email and let me decide what is good and only the things that I really want make it to the real email address.

Actually, the address I used to post this comment is my filter address in gmail. Then I have my ‘real’ gmail address that people know then I have my domain address which very few know.

By: BJ

BJ — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:55:03 +0000

I didn’t mention these temporary email things in the article simply because I had written it several years ago and I did not use anything like that then. I was hoping the topic would be addressed in these comments, and it look like it has been done very kindly.

I have the “spamavert” add on (Colin turned me on to that one), and I installed Mike’s “sxipper” add on too . . . will the two connflict? It looks like maybe they do the same thing, except maybe sxipper forwards a notification to your regular email.

All I really want sxipper for is the disposable email, not all the other stuff like password storage and form filling.

I’m still messing with the settings for sxipper and don’t really have my arms around it yet. Have to read that sxipper help page. Any tips Mike?

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By: Frank J

Frank J — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:52:35 +0000

Mike,

Excellent find and I am glad you shared this. I have used this add-on and it works very well.

Thank you!

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:28:27 +0000

I use a separate account at mail.com, all the junk goes there and also allows me to sign up for some of the nastier places to get inside and peek around….not recommended for the average user LOL

It’s good to have a completely separate email account when having to enter such details online as more and more scammers are harvesting them and selling them on. Any good site will allow users to change their details if they need to.

Beyond that, I get a fair amount of spam on my site but the filters catch most of it but they are persistent in their attempts.