How do you deal with spam?

[JustJon]

I get about 200 messages a day, and about 5-6000 messages a month and it's getting harder and harder to deal with. I tried playing with a spam filter, but I was losing messages I actually wanted to read.

I'm thinking of creating a new email address for personal correspondence and keeping the old one to sign up for things. I don't want to lose the email address I've had for 7 years because it's where everyone contacts me and too many people have it to get in touch with me.

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[Tazz]

I'm thinking of creating a new email address for personal correspondence and keeping the old one to sign up for things


That's what I did. Works like a charm.

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[SuperClerk]

If you have time to kill, click on "Block Sender" or "Block Domain" on each of them. This will prevent any e-mail from that sender. It may take a while, but it might be worth it to you in the long run.

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[MizzleTizzle]

How do you deal with spam?


A sandwich, usually on some Rye with a pickl...oh.

wow that much sucks.

Flame away but with: Norton Internet Security and Spybot [and AOL 9.0]; I get all the emails sent to me [this is a guess, of course]; and the Minister from Nigeria rarely needs me to get his $25 Million into the USA through my bank account.

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[JohnnyCash]

I just delete them when I get them. They seem to get past any filter I have.

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[TooCute]

I have one email address for signing up for things where I don't need to get replies, another for signing up for things where they might send a pasword or something I might actually need to find some day, one for work that mostly gets used for personal correspondance and another personal one which fewer than ten people actually have.

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[zoom2457]

I have one email address for signing up for things where I don't need to get replies, another for signing up for things where they might send a pasword or something I might actually need to find some day, one for work that mostly gets used for personal correspondance and another personal one which fewer than ten people actually have.


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[JustJon]

Well, I own several domains, so I can make it whatever I want at any of them.

And cherry, they may have just captured the email address from something you sent somewhere or from querying the cox server, then someone who had the list just randomly picked you as the return address.

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[MattyBronx]

A friend of mine was a project manager for a company that performed "mass e-mail marketing campaigns". Yes, we can call him a Spam Lord.

A lot of spam (all the bullshit 'pass this on to all your friends' messages) just collects e-mail addresses. When those messages eventually get back around to one of the many collection addresses a bot collects all the e-mail addresses listed in the headers. If you take a look at how many names get attached to any given message you can see that they can collect hundreds of addresses at a time.

So the only thing you can really do to stop spam from coming at all is to not forward crap on to people. You can buy spam-blocker software, but all that does is filter your e-mail, not stop it from being sent in the first place.


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[monsterone]

A friend of mine was a project manager for a company that performed "mass e-mail marketing campaigns". Yes, we can call him a Spam Lord.


please punch your friend in the throat for me.

get an account at http://www.safe-mail.net. very secure and never have gotten any unsolicited emails. i use hotmail for that shit


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[Tall_James]

please punch your friend in the throat for me.

ditto. make sure you're holding a roll of quarters when you do it.


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[StupidGirlllll]

I like my spam with spanish rice...very tasty

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[MattyBronx]

please punch your friend in the throat for me.

ditto. make sure you're holding a roll of quarters when you do it.


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[Reephdweller]

I used to never get any spam because I never gave out my email address to anyone but close friends, but I think at some point Optimum Online sold peoples email addresses or something because for the last few years I've been inundated. If I ever had to give out an email address, I always gave up one I made through Yahoo just for that purpose.

What recently I downloaded Norton Internet Security off of usenet and it has Norton AntiSpam, I linked it up to my email and for the first few days that I got spam I would click a button that the program added to my email that allowed me to identify the email as spam, after a few days of doing this I have almost no spam anymore. Not only does the antispam delete spam as it comes in, but you can also have it block emails from the address that it came from again. So far it works really really well.

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[Fallon]

Yahoo's bulk folder redirects most of the spam I get.

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[walking joint]

i use a yahoo account for the mail i actually want to read. i never get spam there. and then i have an old AOL screen name that i use for other things...and that is full of spam.

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