From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 00:19:23 MDT
On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 07:36 PM, Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> At some point, you really need to change your email address. It's
> surprisingly painless, give it a go :-)
I used to have to delete 50 spams a day (that many got by Mozilla's
filter), but then I started using Mac OS X, which comes with Mail.app.
Mail.app filters all but 2 or 3 spams a day, with no false positives
yet, and I get about 12000 spam emails a month. This has convinced
me that the main problem is improving filters for other people's
mail clients, since filters essentially make the problem go away for
me.
> btw, is it possible, if you are running your own mailserver, to create
> yourself a new address, kill the old one, and put your new address in
> the
> error message that your mailserver produces when people try to use the
> old
> address? That way, humans who send you an email to the wrong account
> will
> get a message telling them the address you should be using, while
> spambots
> will have no clue.
Yes, it's possible, but it would be trivial to make the spambots
notice and harvest the new address, so it may not be worth it.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees." -- Mahatma Gandhi "When you advocate any government action, you must first believe that violence is the best answer to the question at hand." -- Allen Thornton -- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees." -- Mahatma Gandhi "When you advocate any government action, you must first believe that violence is the best answer to the question at hand." -- Allen Thornton
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