Spam

I have noticed this dramatic increase in the amount of spam that I have gotten over the last two weeks.  It seemed really strange because I have very closely guarded my personal email address and my email address at my office.  Yesterday, I went out and googled for my email address.  Low and behold, my email address is posted on several pages online.  How did my email get there and get this spam? 

• It got on a set of the pages because of a few postings on Developmentor's lists.  Apparently, they post all posts to the web, which isn't a big deal, except that they don't remove people's email addresses from the postings.  The result is that the spam bots might be picking this up and I get more spam.  If they have not already done so, I would like to suggest to Developmentor to change the formatting so that someone's email is not readable by a spam bot.  There are on the order of 25-30 postings with my address there.  BTW, I am not mad at Developmentor over this.  I think what they do is a great service to the community.  I just wish my email address wasn't listed on their posts.
• A presentation I did and posted on my web site has been placed onto www.elearning4gurus.com.  I don't remember anyone from there asking about whether they can post my presentation (but I may have forgotten about this).  My email address is in the presentation.  The presentation is still in powerpoint format, so I don't think this is a source.  BTW, the ppt file still has my contact info as an author, so I don't feel that anyone is trying to steal my content.
• Whois lookups.  My email address is listed as a techncial and admin contact on several domains.  Probably the first big source of spam messages.

So, as a result, I will be once again changing my personal email address.  The first time I did it was because I had recieved about 100 spam messages in one day.  Oh yeah, that day was Christmas Day 2002.  Its a slow process and one that is fraught with problems, but it seems to be the only really good solution to this spam problem.  I am in Washington DC right now, so I won't be able to start this process until I get back to TN and have access to everything I need in one spot.