[Discuss] a leg up against spam.

[Patrick]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:57:45 -0800
"Steven Kurylo" wrote:

> > I happened across an article last night that gave me a leg up against spam.
> > After having followed the instructions, this morning I found 5 new spam and
> > phishing emails in my spambox, which lead me to belive the new rulesets are
> > working:  Spamassassin "rules_du_jour" in fact.
> 
> Actually rulesdujour is no longer recommended, for newer than 3.1
> (which is over a year old).  Use sa-update instead
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates

I don't get spam, and I don't use filters.

I've had some trouble with false-positives in the past, while
some of the crap got through anyway, so I don't trust email
filtering anymore.  I certainly don't trust any filter that I
can't turn off [eg, ISP-side filtering].  Instead, I'm just
careful of who I give my address to.

    http://sneakemail.com/

Here's another one;
    http://emailias.com/

So, for example, the only address eBay ever sees is
`eekBay-crustomer(a)sneakEmail.com', PayPal; `PainPal-crustomer@',
Amazon; `Amaz0ff-crustomer@', etc.  These, surprisingly, haven't
drawn any spam.

By the way, a few months before before switching ISPs,
Leaden_Pb(a)primus.ca started getting small a amount of spam, and
I think that had something to do with the `Members' pages on VLUG.
Took me quite a while to figure out where it was coming from, but
that's the only place where my address has been posted on a
website, in cleartext, as a bot-readable link.

By default, I think member addresses should be hidden.  Times
have changed.



Patrick.

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