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Anti Spam Scheme I would like to know how people get rid of spam annoyances once and for all. I have tried various combinations of having several mail addresses with redirections, but I always seem to gather spam after some time (probably from careless use of forums).
Maxime Labelle
I host my own mail server, and create accounts for special purposes. i.e. homebuyer@mydomain.com for when I was looking for a house. That way if anyone decides to sell my account off to some spam list, I will just discontinue that address. This also adds traceablity to the sellouts. Then for my real address which I keep well guarded, it helps to not have a dictionary serachable address. I realize this won't work for everyone, but it's worked well for me.
Elephant
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
Myron A. Semack
I've been using K9 for a month or two and it's settling down nicely now.
John Topley (www.johntopley.com)
http://www.spamgourmet.com does exactly the same thing except you don't need to run your own server. You just set up a (completely free - they reckon that it costs them virtually nothing to run) account with them which redirects to your real email address. Once you've done that you hardly ever need to visit their site again. When you want to give a company your email address, just make one up on the spot of the form <<anything_you_like>>.<<number_of_emails>>.<<your_account_name>>@spamgourmet.com eg:- joelOnSoftware.5.myaccount@spamgourmet.com would only receive 5 emails and then anything else is chucked away. There are loads of other features as well, but that's the most basic (and useful) one. Then you can give out your email address without worrying about spam... and if you do get any, you know where it came from and you can give them a good flaming ;-)
R1ch
"except you don't need to run your own server"
Dennis Forbes
I just don't give anyone my email addres. Seems to work so far.
Rich: what keeps people from sending e-mail to joelOnSoftware.7611753.myaccount@spamgourmet.com instead of joelOnSoftware.5.myaccount@spamgourmet.com?
Klodd the Insensitive
Dennis: excellent point. Ideally, ISPs should offer this kind of service.
Klodd the Insensitive
By the way: I use the "Mark as Junk" feature in Mozilla. It doesn't save me the bandwidth, but my folders are effortlessly clean now. After a week or so of training, I get virtually no false positives or false negatives.
Klodd the Insensitive
People who make four posts in a row are seriously disturbed, I tells ya.
Klodd the Insensitive
Dennis:- Read the last 3 questions in the FAQ: http://www.spamgourmet.com/disposableemail.pl?printpage=faq.html Of course, nothing is for certain, but it seems fairly unlikely.
R1ch
Oh, and the 'Really, how does this site make money?' bit is worth reading too.
R1ch
Spambayes works for me perfectly as well. At least so far.
martydud
If you like spamgourmet, but would rather have your ISP providing the service, contact your ISP and tell them to set it up -- the code is open source.
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Thanks to all.
Maxime Labelle
My mother simply deletes without reading all mails that are in english (or the subject is). 99.9% of all spam is in English. This strategy might not work for everybody, though... ;)
Tero
I used the spambayes plug-in for Outlook 2000 but it appeared to freeze the machine. Anyone successfully using it with Outlook?
Stephen Jones
try Mailwasher Pro from www.firebreach.com
johnny14
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