Comments on: Abandoning the battle against spam

By: TS

TS — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:14:02 +0000

Hmm. Wonder when you’re gonna complain about Halloween in some way. Or talk about Lost and/or TNG. Either way, would be cool to read. And yes. Spam. Who care’s. There, I stayed on topic.

By: Anders

Anders — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:39:31 +0000

My main fear is having a legitimate email being filtered and lost among the hundreds of spam mails accumulated in my spam folder. I don’t trust the automatic filters, and when I keep down the number of spam mails I receive, I get the chance to skim through my spam folder to catch any legitimate mails that may been mistakenly filtered. Otherwise a pain if you regularly accumulate hundreds or thousands of spam mails.

By: Quinalla

Quinalla — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:00:14 +0000

There has only been one legitimate company that just will not remove my e-mail, but that’s the only one to ever do that and yeah I send them to junk now. There have been a few that send way too many and I always remove myself right away with no problem. And sure, I don’t just give my e-mail address to anyone that wants it, but it’s because I don’t want e-mail from them, not because I am worried they will sell my address to spammers. And yes, most of the spam comes from you having your e-mail address on a website somewhere that the bots can find it.

I will say that spam has picked up recently though, my junk folder at work usually has 10 messages a day. Another sign of the economy I suppose.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:49:16 +0000

Is it ironic that I didn;t want to enter my email adress to make this comment?

I agree with you though…. my Gmail spam folder has about 1,000 emails in it, and they now auto-delete at about the same rate new ones come in, so I never even have to look at it. I get about 1 spam email per 3 month period in my inbox with Gmail.

By: John R

John R — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:32:42 +0000

I agree with most of that – but there is a use of using different email addresses.

I have a catchall email address with my ISP, and use things like facebook@myemailaddress.com for Facebook, spamcom@myemailaddress.com and so forth. Every different website has an email attached to it.

If I start to get spam addressed to one of these email addresses, I know exactly where the spam originated from.

I have thrown these in the direction of the website sources and asked them why my email address – that only they know of – gets spammed. Needless to say, the answer is not forthcoming.

Anyway – like you say I can then create a quick email filter or create a new mailbox with the spammed address, and it all goes away.

I suppose the “two mail accounts” idea is akin to going home at the end of the day, walking through your house, jumping over the garden wall, jumping an another car and driving to your real home. All for that bit of extra security.