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Re: [OT] Verification required?

I have heard good things about SpamAssassin <http://www.spamassassin.org/index.html> but I simply use Mail.app and its junk filter. This works since I only get a dozen or so spam a day between my 3 e-mail accounts. I've had these addresses for about 5 years or so.

Why so low? I never give my real e-mail address to any business unless I am sure they won't resell it. I only give my e-mail addresses to people I have met personally (online is fine as long as it wasn't impersonal) and often. I never read any of the stupid e-cards that friends and family send to me, those sometimes serve as e-mail address collectors and visiting the web address for the e-card verifies your e-mail address. If I do get business offers or spam sent to me through e-mail I do not reply to it in any way, that verifies your e-mail address and puts you on priority lists for more spam. I never put my e-mail out on Usenet, on the Web, or in other public forums where it can easily be harvested.

I would say that if you are getting more than a couple of dozen spam per day then cut your losses and get a new e-mail address. In fact, get several for several different levels of security. I keep one close, personal e-mail for close friends and family that I never put out anywhere it can get harvested. I have one moderate security e-mail address for stuff like this list that has a small chance of getting spammed. I keep one high risk e-mail address that I use when I do high risk activities such as e-mailing unknown businesses who might re-sell the address. This last account I am prepared to dump as soon as it gets "dirty" and starts being mega-spammed.

All of the junk mail services are merely stopgap measures. They have some amount of success at the expense of flexibility and they suffer from both false positives and false negatives. The spammers are increasingly finding ways around these types of services and they keep making life more difficult for us people who just want a simple means to communicate freely with each other.

I've seen how horrible the deluge of spam can hit and I am just thankful that I have taken the measures that I have listed here. Of all the people that I know I am fairly certain that I have among the lowest volume of spam and I'm pretty sure its because I just don't take any risks with my e-mail addresses.

- Ken

On Dec 28, 2003, at 5:13 PM, Christian Jon Anderson wrote:

I am sorry for any inconvenience I may have caused by using 0spam.com. I've
white listed the domains of all lists I subscribe to. I've done the same
with the full list address and the individual list members address'.

0spam.com has been notified of the problem and hopefully it has been
resolved by now. If not, and if I hear of any more problems I'll dump out of
the service. Exchanging spam for flames kind of defeats the intended purpose
of such a service.

I am open to any suggestions on how others handle junk mail. I have an
extensive rules list in Entourage X, have tried JunkBroom, SpamSieve and a
couple of others, and am trying 0spam to see if I can shave some time off of
what I am spending on dealing with spam.

Again, please accept my apologies for any inconvenience caused.
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