[OT] Avoiding spam

[Jacob Rhoden <ja...@uptecs.com>]

Hi Guys,

Slightly off topic, I notice when I post, my email address ends up on 
hundreds of websites on google. How do people get around this? Fake 
email addresses?

Best Regards,
Jacob

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Re: [OT] Avoiding spam

[Roger Roger <rx...@gmail.com>]

Jacob,

Take a gmail address as I did. You can fetch all mail using pop and send
using gmail-smtp, and spam filtering is excellent. If it becomes too much to
handle, you can always delete this account and create a new one.

Another option would be to create a special popbox for this purpose, and set
a rule in your mail app that only accepts mails from certain addresses.

Roger

> From: Jacob Rhoden [mailto:jacob-lists@uptecs.com]
> > Slightly off topic, I notice when I post, my email address ends up on
> > hundreds of websites on google. How do people get around this? Fake
> > email addresses?
>

RE: [OT] Avoiding spam

[Peter Crowther <Pe...@melandra.com>]

> From: Jacob Rhoden [mailto:jacob-lists@uptecs.com] 
> Slightly off topic, I notice when I post, my email address ends up on 
> hundreds of websites on google. How do people get around this? Fake 
> email addresses?

Good spam filtering.  "Security by obscurity" of not publishing my real
email address can cost me business when someone can't get hold of me -
and sooner or later I'll slip and the spammers will get my address
anyway.

On this address, I see a little over 200 spam emails a day, of which 2-3
bypass the defences.  At home, I usually see over 500 a day - similarly
with a little over 1% getting through the filters.

		- Peter

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