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Can something be done about this?

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I have two emails address that I have bought @mudcrabs.org and @stirpot.com
Seems like I have been compromised by some nitwits out there and I’m getting a load of Spam (at 60 years of age, the Viagra ones come in handy:Smirk: )

If I change the first part of the address will it still get through?
Any thoughts on confusing the robot computers with numbers mixed with letters make the first word longer?

Dunno, what do you think? if a zombie computer gets you is that :[
 
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Also another question is do you have catchall enabled? If you're not familiar with catchall it means that if you have it enabled {anything}@mudcrabs.org will still go to you. If you do not have it enabled then only the specific email addresses you have setup will receive email sent specifically to those addresses.

If you do not have it enabled then yeah you can change the beginning of your email address to something very random and you'll completely eliminate spam, at least until a spammer gets a hold of it somehow :)
 
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I did have it enabled but turned it off.
One problemo is @mudcrabs is my return address on most of the sites I sign up with, I'll just have to 'Remember' them all and change the first word on them all...bummer what a job..:Oops:
 

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