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One vital thing is to not put your email address in clear-text online, especially heavily indexed sites. The moment I had a real email address end up in the AU
by 3np 5y ago
One vital thing is to not put your email address in clear-text online, especially heavily indexed sites.
The moment I had a real email
address end up in the AUTHORS file of nodejs, that address is now a spamhole. Domain is otherwise fine.
Another can be buying a new domain that (perhaps purely coincidentally) that has already made the rounds into spammers dbs.
- jart 5y agoThat's a good way to make sure only spammers can contact you. I don't conceal my email address and I get at least a thousand spam emails per day. If it lets one good stranger contact me per day then it's worth it. Being a Gmail early adopter, I also get so many emails due to typos or incorrectly filled out forms where people are trying to contact someone with a similar name. It's interesting to learn about what people who share my last name are doing.
- technofiend 5y agoOh for sure but although I got a fair amount my domain owner email address was just swimming in it. As others have said thousands of emails a day.
- 3np 5y agoOh yeah, these days I hope it’s common practice to use separate email addresses for separate prurposes for individuals too. So yeah, domain owner is a tough one but shouldn’t really receive legitimate inbound contacts as long as you have some other contact method on the/a associated website. Personally I just black hole that one.