[goldstategop]

Do you have up a personal home page with an email address? Expect lovely spam to show up in your in-box as long you're alive.

[Always Right]

Any advice on limiting this trash would be appreciated. Mark A Sity

Get a new e-mail account and don't give it out to any vendor or website.

[martin_fierro]

Mailwasher works pretty well for a free utility, especially with heuristics set to "strong" and a good list of DNS Blacklist servers.

[americafirst]

I use SpamNet with my Outlook and have been pleased with it. It isn't cheap but it's easy to use and it works - 3,900 spam emails deleted in two months.

http://www.cloudmark.com/myspamnet/

[Kaslin]

Ask your ISP to change your name with what you get your e-mail. This is what I did and it works

[TomGuy]

I use Mailwasher to pre-screen all email. When I get on an undesired mailing list, I set the bounce filter more globally (using asterick). Setting the bounce filter can effectively remove all email from some sources.

Be careful though in setting the filter too globally. For example, if you block/filter all *@aol.com, you effectively block any mail coming from AOL senders.

I open the full header in undesired mail and look for a source. I noticed several coming from a site at xxx.xxx.xxx.br for offshore drugs, so I could block/filter *@*xxx.br .

[KellyAdmirer]

Use a free service like spamgourmet.com if you give out your e-mail on online forms, it allows you to prevent spammers from getting your real e-mail address. Yahoo! just introduced something like it but you have to pay $30 a year.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Here is some more.



Low cal!!

[sr4402]

If your contacts are all known, see if your email service has a box to accept only calls from those addresses.

[Hang'emAll]

I use Mailwasher Pro3.2 It is very effective. When you get proficient at it add these filters developed by a user, they do the real work.

http://www.w5hq.com/MailWasher/MailWasherFilters.txt

My spam is down from 200 emails to the 20 a day I need.

[Izzy Dunne]

In Mail.app, I just set the JUNK MAIL menu option to TRAINING, mark each piece of junk I get as junk, then set the JUNK MAIL option to AUTOMATIC.

Now all that crap goes into the JUNK folder. Once you get confidence in the training, you could have it automatically delete the junk, but I haven't done that yet.

[SpellingTroll]

I have tried the "unsubscribe" links, some might work, but enough don't (or are ignored) that my e-mail address is sold again and again.

This is the biggest mistake many people make. Spammers use this as a means to verify active e-mail addresses.

Depending on your ISP, you may be allowed 1 or more additional POP3 e-mail accounts at no cost. If this is the case, I suggest you create a new POP3 account, and abandon the old one.

Speaking from experience, I can tell you that there is virutally no way to stop 100% of the spam from reaching your inbox - and this leaves you vulnerable to not only offensive spam including porn, etc., but also unscrupulous individuals who send spam in an attempt to spread a virus, trojan, etc.

If you find yourself in a situation where you are asked/prompted for a valid e-mail address, never, ever provide the address to your POP3 account. Once the address of your POP3 account is out there, there's no getting it back - it's like trying to un-ring a bell.

Instead, create a free web-based email account (such as provided by Yahoo!), and use then when on the Net, etc. Keep your POP3 private, for close family, friends, etc., and make sure they understand that they are never to share it with anyone.

[zeugma]

What I've finally done is shunt all incoming mail except those people I'm expecting to get mail from into a spam folder that I can peruse at my leisure. The only problem is, when someone changes addresses, they can get caught in the spambox until I create a new filter for the address.

I've had the same email address for almost 7 years, so I get lots of spam.

[George Smiley]

whiteice.com offers 5MB of webspace and spam-filtering for $20 per year.

You give out the whiteice.com email address and set the address to which you want your email forwarded.

It works extremely well.

[hardhead]

I fight spam in two ways. First, none of my web pages have 'live' e-mail links - they're passive - legitimate visitors have to cut and paste.

I have come to the conclusion that spam will never be eradicated - maybe in the U.S. but those are the least of worries. Most spam comes from China, Taiwan, Korea, Russia, Brazil(?), Spain, Italy. I never respond to the 'unsubscribe' link or have any correspondence with the perp. Instead, I try to hit the bastards in the pocketbook and get their accounts cancelled. I have been using SpamCop for about a year - it is a little time-consuming but it helps shut the scum down.

I even had one guy write to me crying 'I'm not a spammer, I just want to present a valid business opportunity to you. Please contact me with your e-mail address.' Duh! No response from me.

[dix]

Save to read later.

[Billthedrill]

Do enough people go for their stuff to make up for the time and trouble?

In fact, yes. Sending spam is so close to free that they only need one or two hits per 100,000 emails to pay for the whole shebang. The fact that it's nearly free isn't really a function of the magic of the Internet so much as it is a function of the fact that the recipient pays for it. Ugh.

[tm22721]

The only remedy is to get a new email address periodically and inform only your personal friends and relatives.

Do not use it on the web, use a Yahoo address instead.

BUMP

[Momaw Nadon]

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[Momaw Nadon]

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