len garden wrote:

> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>> snippage
>> That was not the point. Your posting *guests* are leaving their own
>> email address in your guestbook, where *they* are being harvested by
>> the spam bots. That has nothing to do with your own personal spam
>> problem. It just creates spam problems for the unsuspecting posters.
>
> i still see no problem with the guest book as the only working e/mail

No, *you* don't get spam from the guestbook, the people who are posting
their email addresses there are the ones getting it because they left
their emails in the clear, ripe for harvesting. These people:

buckaroo @ iinet.net.au
sallyb0 @ utas.edu.au
jasali10 @ netspace.net.au
kwgibbs1 @ alltel.net

and so forth. These are on your guestbook, and can/will be harvested so
*they* get spam. Newbies don't know the ramifications of posting an
address, on the web, in the clear. As you may surmise, I am
anti-guestbook for this reason.

> addy i have connected to my page goes throuhg my isp who i must
> repeat blocks spam so any spam i get on that addy is miniscual
> compared to my addy with my web host.

Right. That's why I was attempting to concentrate on you finding the
email options at your hosting service.

> i must repeat in 10 years i have had that guest book and that address
> i have never had a spam problem such as this as described above.

See above. The guestbook causes spam to be sent to the posters.

So, you are using "gardenlen2ATlensgardenDOTcomDOTau" at the geneology
pages: "my domain e/mail addy is not featured on my web page, i
generally only use the addy when i am doing geneology research" and it
is posted in forums, etc. It will continue to be harvested as long as it
appears on a web page.

> i may as yet give t/bird a try but not yet

Your choice, but the spam will continue until you do.

> as when i change host later next year this spam problem should lessen.
> so i have ben told.

Not if you use the same email address with the new host's services.
That's why Heather said get a throwaway address for public posting. A
yahoo address, hotmail, gmail ... and if you start getting too much
spam, close it and get another.

I can't help you with anything else at this point.

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