Comments on: The Sorry State of Spam and What You Can Do About It

By: Jay Burnes

Jay Burnes — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:49:29 +0000

a friend of mine made the mistake of signing up for boxbe. Now I receive daily requests, that try hard to appear to come from her, asking me to sign up for their service. She hates them but has been unable to unsubscribe. I have been unable to block them with spamassassin. Be carefull what you subscribe to, a spam blocker can easily be a spammer.

Jay

By: John Sampson

John Sampson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:38:48 +0000

Apparently spammers synthesise email addresses at random so sooner or later the spam will start coming even if your email address was not harvested from anywhere. I use ClearMyMail which filters email before it reaches my computer. So far it is the best solution for me as annoyingly Thunderbird sounds a ping on arrival of email whether it is spam or not. A good spam-filtering email client would be a good idea if it remained silent when spam arrived but pinged when ‘ham’ arrived. I don’t know of one that does that.

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By: Noel

Noel — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:50:37 +0000

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By: Noel

Noel — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:49:51 +0000

I have been using Emailias.com’s disposable email addresses (DEA)for almost 4 years now; I rarely get more than 1 spam message a month (Through using Emailias / not leaving my email address ‘lying around’ for spambots to pick up / other sensible measures that most experienced ppl take these days).

It’s the most highly-featured DEA service I have found – beats SpamGourmet, Trashmail and the like.

Challenge/Response and Bayesian filtering don’t pass muster with me.

Using a contact form service like that of AwayFind.com will probably be another tool for me to keep spam down / control contact.

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WebWorkerDaily » Archive Reducing Unnecessary Email Intake « — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:00:09 +0000

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Web Worker Daily » Archive More Ways to Fight the Spam Plague « — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:42 +0000

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By: Chris Boswell

Chris Boswell — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:52:45 +0000

I find using the verification system very useful, and its reduced spam to almost zero. I also forward my mail to another box where its backed up, and this isn’t verified, so I don’t lose any emails. Checking this box too might seem like too much work, but actually, once the system had been running a while a found I was not getting spam in either box.

By: Free Email Cards

Free Email Cards — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:11:34 +0000

Glad to see someone is staying on top of things.