[dba-Tech] Re: [AccessD] Spam Filter was New EMail Address

OUCH 300! :O
   I still have my old "hotmail" email address and I get something about 
15-30 spams a day.  I finally ran into a neat product online... it's 
called mailinator.com.  I use it as a spam fighting tool, whenever I 
subscribe to a site, but don't want to make sure I don't get ANY spam, I 
give it a throwaway address like
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myspamBox at mailinator.com 
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It's not neccary to go to mailinator.com and create the box as it is 
automatically created on the fly w/o any issues.  This works great for 2 
reasons.. you can sign up to a web list and give it a fake address like 
mentioned above and then if you need to activate it via some special url 
link, just visit mailinator.com and give it the fake email address you 
then get a chance to visit the inbox for that account (note there is NO 
password to the account), it's a disposable email address.



John W. Colby wrote:

>I use SpamBayes for Outlook, a Bayesian filter.  It is AMAZING but... it
>still has the occasional 1 out of 500 emails (or even less) that are good
>emails from someone out there somewhere.  Real messages sent to spam for
>some reason.  my old email address simply gets so much spam now, more than
>300 per day and climbing, that it just doesn't make any sense anymore to
>fight that battle.  Since turning it off I don't get a single one.  My old
>address was on my web site for many years and just got put into every list
>out there.  I will create an address specifically for my web site, use one
>of the tricks mentioned, and if it starts getting hammered I'll just close
>that account and open another for the web site.  Since the vast majority of
>my real email is from associates who will eventually get my new address and
>switch to that, my flood of spam will just stop entirely.
>
>Believe me, it's nice not getting a single spam in 2 days.
>
>John W. Colby
>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H
>Tapia
>Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:45 AM
>To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Re: [AccessD] Spam Filter was New EMail Address
>
>
>I *USED* to use mailwasher but I got tiered of batteling spam and
>sending all these bounced messages...in the end I ended up moving to
>Thunderbird, which does a suprisingly good job of flitering out
>junkmail... I don't say that to pursade anyone... but in my case it's
>been a life saver to filter out at my end w/ Thunderbird. :)
>
>(google: Mozilla Thunderbird)
>
>
>Francisco H Tapia wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Spam and Email filtering is a serious and interesting topic, I'm
>>moving the thread to the dba-tech list where it can continue to grow :),
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>
>>Joe Hecht wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I have been using Mail Washer as a spam filter and successfully reduced
>>>my spam load.
>>>
>>>You download your e-mail into a new window. You can go in and mark the
>>>spam and it gets bounced back as a bad address. You can either mark 1
>>>address or an entire domain as spam. Click one button to process the
>>>mail and it then downloads into your e-mail client.
>>>
>>>
>>>JOE HECHT
>>>LOS ANGELES CA
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby
>>>Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:59 PM
>>>To: AccessD
>>>Subject: [AccessD] New EMail Address
>>>
>>>Anyone who has me in their address book should note that my email
>>>address
>>>has changed to jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com (notice the W).  I have
>>>turned
>>>off jcolby at colbyconsulting.com due to an overwhelming flood of spam,
>>>approaching 300 spam emails a day.  While my email filter was extremely
>>>accurate in getting them out of my inbox there is the occasional (1 in
>>>500
>>>or so) false positives where a good email gets put out in the spam
>>>folder.
>>>It is getting very hard to find them so it's time to just shut that
>>>email
>>>box down.
>>>
>>>Sorry for the inconvenience.
>>>      
>>>


-- 
-Francisco