Foiling Junk Mailers

daArch

As all who own domains know, the public records of such are fertile fishing grounds for solicitors. Well, being sick and tired of junk mail and spam, I made one little change on the contact info for one of my domains (warch.com). For the "registrant" I entered a name that would amply warn me when receiving junk mail generated by a mailbot that harvested my info and automatically sent me crap.

Well here, the letter received today explains it better. Note the first line of the address. Each time I receive one of these, my whole day is made better. BTW, I do love the irony of the Personal and Confidential note on it :

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Wallcovering Installations by Bill Archibald|paperhanger|Eastern Mass|Greater Boston Area|Dover|Wellesley|Franklin|Sharon|MA

Banned For Life

That's awesome. You can opt for "Private Registration" and pay a small fee, or simply use a totally bogus address in your domain registration info.

PS: Excellent website by the way. (warch.com)

porkchop

That was something i liked about 1and1 hosting. the private registration is a free service.

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- Chris
My construction company- Chicago Painting Contractor, Chicago Handyman, Chicago Remodeling. Chicago Internet Marketing by LSB.

porkchop

By the way seeing that to address made me laugh like crazy.

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- Chris
My construction company- Chicago Painting Contractor, Chicago Handyman, Chicago Remodeling. Chicago Internet Marketing by LSB.

ProWallGuy

Thanks for posting your address Bill. More spam on the way!

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KentWhitten

And ain't that special, it looks just like a letter from Liberty Mutual! Scum.

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If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place ~Lao Tzu

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