New Email Contact Address
Please be advised that I have had to change the email address that is listed on the "About" page. Spammers somehow compromised the original contact address. This applies to that email address only at this time. A human should be able to figure the addy out, but hopefully a spambot will not. But I may be forced to change this periodically, as it appears to be a WordPress weakness that allowed the exploit - at least that is what the hosting company is telling me.
If anyone did get any spam that supposedly originated from this site's email, I apologize and assure you it did not come from here, but was spoofed. The original address is being shut down, effective immediately and all emails in it will be lost. The address book there was always very small, on purpose, but that will be lost as well.
Sorry for any inconvenience. If you meet a spammer, slap him.
UPDATE: The old contact email has been deleted, taking all emails with it. I did not feel it was a good idea to try to save anything since the spammers have been able to exploit it.
Geek Stuff | Gaius Thursday, 20 December , 2007
By crosspatch, Thursday, 20 December , 2007 @ 11:56 am
Use gmail and let them filter out the spam, that’s what I do. Seems to work pretty well for me. I get thousands of spams a day and I never see them in my inbox.
By quilly mammoth, Thursday, 20 December , 2007 @ 4:29 pm
Gaius, I feel your pain. The same thing has happened to my addy at JBM so I’m back to using Hotmail for emailing.
By J. A. Jance, Thursday, 20 December , 2007 @ 5:04 pm
I tried to send to the address above and it bounced. Just wanted to say that spoofing isn’t funny.
By Gaius, Thursday, 20 December , 2007 @ 5:11 pm
I’ve gotten several emails through that new box from people. There is a box trapper running. You have to reply to the email the program sends back to be whitelisted for future mails.