That isn't even necessary anymore. I've received spam mails where the CC's are to similar combinations of my address where likely many of them don't even exist. Its easy to write a piece of sfotware to randomly tack words together (or words with common strings such as numeric dates and such a la Yahoo) and add an @gmail.com or an @yahoo.com to it. Most of those messages will end up as returned for being invalid, and the software may even record this against the generates list such that the ones that don't return such are then added to a revised spamming list later. I didn't have to give up my email address anywhere for any of this to work
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well, it's in my personal contact page for the jounal, and I've got my journal set to restrict web crawlers and such. Not that its perfect, but it does a good enough job. But you're right, I'll edit it anyhow.
First things first, are you receiving your email through a dedicated client such as Outlook Express? If not, its the only way you'll be ableto filter out those pesky spam emails, as any spam filtering software you may wish to run needs to have something to filter. I've no recommendations under Windows for you at this time, though if you have a spare computer handy, SpamAssassin or other Linux or BSD-based spam blocker servers are available free of charge. I'm really not all that up on these technologies, personally, as I don't really bother with them on my personal system.
I don't know how much spam you get every day or week, but I've hardly ever received any over the years. I don't know if its me using smarter practices or the advancement of filtering technologies on the server end of things, but a spam very few weeks that isn't my fault seems acceptible.
Gmail does an excelent job filtering spam, the problem is that I read through the spam list before I delete it incase something genuine was marked as spam.
Kindof defeats the purposes of filtering for spam. I just don't bother one bit. If I didn't get something, they'll find a way to ask me if I've received something.
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First things first, are you receiving your email through a dedicated client such as Outlook Express? If not, its the only way you'll be ableto filter out those pesky spam emails, as any spam filtering software you may wish to run needs to have something to filter. I've no recommendations under Windows for you at this time, though if you have a spare computer handy, SpamAssassin or other Linux or BSD-based spam blocker servers are available free of charge. I'm really not all that up on these technologies, personally, as I don't really bother with them on my personal system.
I don't know how much spam you get every day or week, but I've hardly ever received any over the years. I don't know if its me using smarter practices or the advancement of filtering technologies on the server end of things, but a spam very few weeks that isn't my fault seems acceptible.
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