Simone said:
'til now I've used Mailwasher and very rarely has done mistakes marking
as spam what was not.
Email spam is a joke, and very easy to stop.
First, take down any webpages you have that use an address which
includes your user ID in the address string. These are web pages that
your ISP hosts for you.
Next, contact your ISP and change your user ID to something that's a
randomized sequence of alphanumeric characters.
Change your news reader so that you always post with a fake email address.
Start a throw-away email account with somebody like Yahoo and don't give
them any info like the new email address you have with your ISP.
Send out an email telling everybody in your address book that you have a
new email address. To send this message, use whichever of your email
addresses you believe the recipient deserves:
1. People you can't trust, those for instance who insist on sending you
e-cards and-or who include you in group send lists get only your
throwaway address.
2. People you can trust get your main (ISP based) address, and tell them
not to give it to _anybody_ else. Tell them about Blind Carbon Copy and
tell them to use it for group sends. Tell them not to send you e-cards.
Warn them that failure to do so will get them on the throwaway email
account list the next time you have to change your email address.
NEVER give your ISP address to anybody that you don't know or to ANY
business whatsoever.
I did all this about a year ago, and I'm getting about twenty spams
every month. This minor trickle of spam I attribute to two cousins (both
female) who sent me e-cards in spite of my *very* deliberately telling
them not to. Guess which email address they're going to get next time
around.
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Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc, for instance. No
adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware,
PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware,
viruses or warez for me, please.
