Hi
1.  I used to get thirty or forty spam messages in spite of a Spam filter.
2.   I changed my email address.
3.   No more spam for three months.
4.   I joined coreldraw.com
5.   The spam has returned.  They know my new email address and even my name (Phil)

CONCLUSION:  This site is not secure.

Phil

I have been active on this site for over a year. I have not changed my email address. I receive fewer than 10 spams per month. None of them come to the email address I use here.

Conclusion: your conclusion is premature ;-) I would look for other sources causing the spam. 

Same experience here Rikk. Surely Phil need to check other sources of spam.

Rikk Flohr:

I have been active on this site for over a year. I have not changed my email address. I receive fewer than 10 spams per month. None of them come to the email address I use here. Conclusion: your conclusion is premature ;-) I would look for other sources causing the spam.

<Anand> wrote in message news:29409@coreldraw.com...

Same experience here Rikk. Surely Phil need to check other sources of spam.

 

Rikk Flohr:

I have been active on this site for over a year. I have not changed my email address. I receive fewer than 10 spams per month. None of them come to the email address I use here. Conclusion: your conclusion is premature ;-) I would look for other sources causing the spam.

 

 

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http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/7752/29409.aspx#29409

 Ditto, same here...........no problems at all.

 Hi
    I must conclude that it is not the fault of this site.
    So how in the world did they get both my email address and my name.  I guess that they must be able to listen in to internet traffic when I sent out a few emails telling people my new email address. 
 I also wonder what they hope to accomplish with all that SPAM.  Does anyone actually ever buy anything from a SPAM message
Phil. 

 Hi
    I must conclude that it is not the fault of this site.
    So how in the world did they get both my email address and my name.  I guess that they must be able to listen in to internet traffic when I sent out a few emails telling people my new email address. 
 I also wonder what they hope to accomplish with all that SPAM.  Does anyone actually ever buy anything from a SPAM message
Phil. 

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http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/7752/29448.aspx#29448

As long as you enter the email in the private field only in your profile on CorelDRAW.com, it is kept confidential (not even other members can see it). If you enter it in the public email field, it is visible to everyone, including spam robots who go through the various sites to get email addresses for spamming. 

Gérard

Spam... never open it, a single linked image can confirm you exist when it's downloaded. NEVER unsubscribe.

Curiously I was getting 150 messages a day, I just couldn't care less, it just gets sorted by Outlook. That's now down to about 10. And I've don't nothing... so I can only conclude that efforts being made to put offenders in jail must be working. There have been some pretty high profile cases in the US.

These dudes are arguably the leaders in spam prevention

http://www.spamhaus.org/

"Spamhaus tracks the Internet's Spammers, Spam Gangs and Spam Services, provides dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet networks, and works with Law Enforcement to identify and pursue spammers worldwide."

And here's a picture for a recent assignment. ;)

I had my mail id set in public till I realised the threat of spam from Gerards post. But fortunately I had no increase in spams I received since I put my id here in public. So I can say there is no one here who's getting the address for the spamming, at least till date.

BTW I have removed my mail Id from Public on this site. Just as a precaution.

Gerard Metrailler:

If you enter it in the public email field, it is visible to everyone, including spam robots who go through the various sites to get email addresses for spamming.