Any other skinners/admins get this?

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Hey all,
just wanted to know if anyone else got this. I love answering emails about my skins and such, but this one looks like it belongs in an admin's account. They clearly have no business emailing my lowly arse!

Message
Hi

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Looks like someone is going through people's profiles to find e-mail addresses for spamming purposes.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That's why I have warned people about posting Email accounts here at WC, don't do it unless you want the spam too.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
yup, someone used a spider/search engine-type script to crawl the database. Not good. Not a lot that WC could do about it, though.

The only suggestion I would have is to use the name in the link to the user profile, and not an easily generatable number. Since the accounts here are email based, and you can change your name, I dunno if you could do anything better than what they have. Even then, they could still track ya down by first crawling through the the skin database to get the names, so I guess it is the same difference.

Spammers are scum.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah, not much I can do about it, I need my email posted cause I have a few skins, it's bound to happen I guess, hope they pass that anti-spam bill i've been hearing about, that sure would be nice.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The anti-spam laws aren't really gonna help much. Most spammers are functioning illegally already, offering bogus items, untargeted pr0n, or pharmecuticals. The rest will just move their mail server to a country that doesn't have any spam laws and launder their money in. The only ones that will be forced to stop are the ones with static, legitimate point-of-origin, and they can be filtered out easily anyway...
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What really, really burns my posterior is Network Solutions. If you get a domain from the jerks they require it to be accessable to the public (in an easily spider-able form), i have no idea why. I get at least 50 spam emails a day from that account. IF someone legitimately wanted to contact me about the domain, the chances are pretty slim that I would get the email. Kind of defeats the purpose.