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"Don Geddis" wrote in message
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Don't you get huge amounts of spam as a result of posting your email
address, unmunged, on USENET?


billy

"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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Documented research indicate that on Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:52:20 -0700, Don
Geddis wrote:

"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.

Seperate public and private email by using different accounts/aliases. I
use a system of about 50 aliases for my 1 email account, one alias for each
type of service. Then when one alias gets overrun by spam, I simply remove
it from my list, and create a new one ... that way I've been 99% spam free
for over 2 years ...

I use a few custom made spam filters that look for patterns and word
structures in subjects and bodies, reducing the amount of spam that
actually gets through to a handful each month.

Personally I have a much bigger problem with virus and worms coming to my
email, forcing the antivirus to work overtime to keep them out.

--
Rene Brehmer
aka Metalbunny

We have nothing to fear from free speech and free information on the
Internet, but pop-up advertising!

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