"Billy" wrote on Sun, 17 Jul 2005:
Don't you get huge amounts of spam as a result of posting your email
address, unmunged, on USENET?

Yes :-).

But I've got at least one email address, still valid, which has been working
since about 1986 or so. Keeping spam away from my email doesn't seem feasible.
Meanwhile, all the "munging" solutions make it harder for ordinary people to
contact me.

So I've been forced to deal with spam on the receive side. Some combination of
the obvious stuff (a huge whitelist, built over years; Bayesian filtering,
SpamAssassin, etc.) does an excellent job of categorizing my incoming email,
and there is very little spam that I need to process manually.

But yes, it's a hard problem with no great solution.

-- Don
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