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celaurie
Jun 19, 2003, 05:56 AM
Over the past few weeks I've noticed the amount of SPAM I've been getting has increased three-fold. This despite efforts to limit the appearance of my e-mail addresses online (ie. from SPAM bots).

I've been using a combination of the Junk Mail filter and SpamCop (http://www.spamcop.net/) for a while now to report unsolicited messages, but this doesn't really help stop them.

Does anyone have any suggestions on futher ideas/tools to fight SPAM?

Chris, on a Crusade


yzedf
Jun 19, 2003, 09:46 AM
http://spamassassin.rediris.es/index.html
celaurie
Jun 19, 2003, 10:35 AM
On the subject of fighting SPAM (http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/18/spam/).
Le Big Mac
Jun 19, 2003, 10:53 AM
Originally posted by celaurie
This despite efforts to limit the appearance of my e-mail addresses online (ie. from SPAM bots).


Chris, on a Crusade

Eliminate all appearances. Get a separate email address that you can dispose of for use online. Keep your personal email address to yourself. If you have to, change it to something more complicated/longer, especially if it's hotmail or yahoo or aol or some popular isp.

I have an email address that I give only to friends and it's not a popular ISP domain. I never put it online or give it to online stores. I never get spam.

My yahoo account, that I never have given to everyone? Tons of spam.
janey
Jun 19, 2003, 02:56 PM
Originally posted by Le Big Mac
Eliminate all appearances. Get a separate email address that you can dispose of for use online. Keep your personal email address to yourself. If you have to, change it to something more complicated/longer, especially if it's hotmail or yahoo or aol or some popular isp...(snip)
some ISP's and stuff filter the mail before it arrives in your inbox. One example is Apple. They remove all junk mail that they know for certain is junk, then the rest gets dumped into your .mac inbox. very useful at times :)
tip: When you're giving out addresses, don't do the standard user@something.com address, do something like user (at) something.com or user (at) something (dot) com to make it harder for bots to grab your e-mail address.