I slice it very thin with a wire cheese slicing block
Then I fry it crisp with my panini grill.
Then I add cheese and bread and return to the panini grill for two more minutes.
I have a couple of suggestions.
1) open up a google account that is ONLY for personal use. It is ONLY for giving out to your family, friends, etc. NEVER sign up for anything else and it won’t get spammed.
2) I got a lot of spam when I posted my resume on Monster. There are crawlers running through the web all the time and they look for Anyone@something.com or whoever@thisorthat.net, you get the idea. A computer will overlook Anyone at something dot com and whoever at thisorthat dot net, but a human will immediately recognize it as an email address, especially if you list it as an anti-spam email address. It will also make you look technically savvy.
3) For those of you who are webmasters, open up a white-on-white email address on the front page of your website. These crawlers constantly are looking for soandso@yourwebsite.com and will try sending emails to it. ANY server that sends email to that white-on-white email address should end up on the blacklist. It will knock out about 20-25% of the incoming spam.
be on every list known to man and will be spammed forever.
I haven’t found a good answer. I even read my spam folder just to check for false positives. Also, many email servers block gmail accounts, especially if you use a “reply as ...” to send email.
Good to see you again. Enjoy the world of long haul, buddy.
I was getting over 500 spams a day for a period of time.
Spam comes in waves, usually.
Hitting the delete key was great.
I broke that computer key and eventually and got a new computer.
I have a junk mail system now that works well and keeps
it down to 50 or under a day.
Ditto for my husband who receives over 1,000 spams
or more a day on some days.
A well trained junk mail system works for us and my
garbage makes a great garbage eating sound when
I dump it into the trash and empty the trash.
I like it with some eggs over easy and some more Spam, Spam, bacon and Spam.
Spam spam spam spam, Spam spam spam Spam.
I slice it very thin with a wire cheese slicing block
Then I fry it crisp with my panini grill.
Then I add cheese and bread and return to the panini grill for two more minutes.
Yahoo Mail accurately filters out >95% of my spam. I spend a few minutes every few days scanning the bulk mail folder to make sure it is nothing I want to see.
Since you have an Ubuntu box running, you could install spam assassin on it, and have it scan your remote mail box, scoring e-mails and putting probable junk mails with a leading tag of [junk] or the like - check the Ubuntu forums for instructions, there’s a zillion good guides out there.
As for all the windows programs you have going there - first thing I do with any new computer is install firefox, go to Mike’s Host List and install the blacklist of ad servers and malicious servers, and have a good firewall on my router. Haven’t had an infection in forever. For occasional scanning, I use CA Internet Suite which does a marvelous job of not just finding buggers, but eliminating them.
Oh, running through gmail, I’ve got a pretty steady 30k spam mails in the spam folder, and have never had a false positive except if I train the software to recognize a valid email as being spam (happens sometimes... Sloppy me.) Yahoo is slightly worse, about 1 in a thousand false positives for unknown senders. Both handle the load of multiple mailboxes very well.
Judging from my spam, trashing my credit rating and burning down my house would eliminate about half.
Use Mailwasher to view emails by subject and sender before it is downloaded onto your machine. Simply mark the offending emails for deletion and then process them.
Only the ones you want will be downloaded locally.
Another great way of stopping the spammers cold is to use Sneakemail . This service is free and allows you to generate an email address (in the form of "h3482jsl294@sneakemail.com") for giving out to whomever.
All return email sent to this address shows up in your normal mailbox for whatever account you have now. All it does is add one extra hop to the route. If you start getting spam to that address...just login to sneakemail and delete it. No more Spam!
Whenever I have to give an email address to a website or such, I use a sneakemail address. You can create dozens and label them and add filtering rules on their website for each address.
In addition to the FReeper’s comments in #2, Google mail has an excellent spam filter already built in. Works extraordinarily well. I have my broadband acc’t forward everything to the Goog because without that 20,000 spams accumulate about every four months (that’s over 100 a day).