<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Kremmen:
The email address I use on FT I don't use anywhere else. Thus, I would have hoped it would stay spam-free.
Unfortunately, and suddenly, I am getting an increasing deluge of spam. A few last week, 8 yesterday and 14 today! At this rate, my FT email address will be totally unusable within a week.
I did a search on google for [email protected] and find 4 matches, all of them on flyertalk.com!
Hey, guys, get a ****ing clue! DO NOT ALLOW SEARCH ENGINES TO INDEX FLYERTALK CONTACT DETAILS! There is no way references to "www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forumcgi/ Ultimate.cgi" should be appearing in search engines, because if you're allowing Google to do it, you're no doubt allowing spammers to do it too. It just means that, in the end, we will all have our email accounts flooded with spam and/or have to not put email addresses on here.
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We'll check it out...
UPDATE: I modified our robots.txt file to hopefully keep the polite bots out of the Ultimate.cgi and ubbmisc.cgi pages, which display email addresses.
You can always keep your email address private by choosing that option in your Profile page. If someone needs to get hold of you, you can post your email address as "user at domain dot com", ala slashdot.
[This message has been edited by dan at WebFlyer (edited 06-10-2003).]