[Dr. Smooth]

Originally Posted by dean_shan

I proud to say the my 'real' email address is spamfree. I have only recieved 5 or so spam messages from when I set it up last year.

Enjoy it while you can. It's only a matter of time before a friend of yours types your address into a web page (maybe as a referral, or to send you an Amazon wish list or something).

[Dr. Smooth]

Originally Posted by dean_shan

I proud to say the my 'real' email address is spamfree. I have only recieved 5 or so spam messages from when I set it up last year.

Enjoy it while you can. It's only a matter of time before a friend of yours types your address into a web page (maybe as a referral, or to send you an Amazon wish list or something).

[foldedspace]

The sad truth is that if you 'unsubscribe', you *may* be taken off that spammers list, but your email address will be sold to several other spammers.

I disable images as well....

[ziggy]

Originally Posted by Ryan Joseph

"That was never 5 minutes just now!"

:mrgreen:

Yes it was!

[Steven Cedrone]

O.K., now I know it's tempting to do 50 posts back and forth ala "I came in here for an arguement"...

But please, add something of substance to the Great Spam debate as well...

Anyway, this isn't an argument, it's just contradiction... :wink:

And for the 3 of you that have no idea what anyone here is talking about:

Argument
SPAM

Steve

[Shagin099]

My boss came up with this method and it works quite well, what we do is we do a whois on the domain the spam is coming from (if its a legit domain) then e-mail all the contact adresses threatening with legal action that they have no idea what really is. I have found this actually works 95% of the time, and if you act really importaint and stuff, sometimes you get an apology, or they tell you where they got your adress. Overall its worked well for me.

-Dan

[Gerard]

Yeah, I'm a bit puzzled by x999x's choice of employers too. I get over 300 spam every day, largely due to pocketnow's long-standing policy of making contributors include their email address in articles. Though it's been a long while since I wrote anything for the site, still those addresses are being harvested. Some days I get as many as 500. Fortunately I use nPOPw, and have arranged a set of filters which automatically mark for deletion from the server about 80% of my spam. Combined with download previews of about 2KB each, this makes very quick work of rounding up and batch-deleting all the crap.

But to know that a person of talent such as x999x, whose altruist community spirit in the past has been most exemplary, is involved in spam in any way, well, it's a bit depressing. Come on man, there's got to be another place to get some work!

[billbuckner]

Spam? You all get Spam? :devilboy: I always use a charter.net mail address when I sign up for anything. It gets 200 average spam messages a day. 8O My personal gMail account gets no spam. I only visit my Charter account to clear out all the spam so I can get a verification letter.

[Kati Compton]

Oh - I should add...

As the person that gets the newsletter bounces from PPCT, I'd like to ask people to PLEASE unsubscribe rather than spam-block. Steve handles the unsubscribe requests himself, there is no list, etc. It would help reduce the 300-500 bounces a week I have to scan to remove "user unknowns". This really sucks up a lot of time each week, so if people can spend 5 seconds to reduce that, I'd like them to.

And if you are a registered user, and don't know what I'm talking about when I say "newsletter", your ISP is probably blocking it as spam. Just send a note to moderator@ and we'll remove you so I don't get your bounce. Thanks!

[ricksfiona]

Originally Posted by billbuckner

Spam? You all get Spam? :devilboy: I always use a charter.net mail address when I sign up for anything. It gets 200 average spam messages a day. 8O My personal gMail account gets no spam. I only visit my Charter account to clear out all the spam so I can get a verification letter.

Yes, I think many people do something similar to that. I have a Yahoo account I do that with.

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by Kati Compton

And if you are a registered user, and don't know what I'm talking about when I say "newsletter", your ISP is probably blocking it as spam. Just send a note to moderator@ and we'll remove you so I don't get your bounce. Thanks!

FYI, you can also unsubscribe yourself - go into Preferences at the top of this page, and about 3/4ths down there's the weekly digest toggle, where you can set it to No.

--janak