[thelist] Serious antispam measures

[Stephen Rider]

I use a variation on this.  I also give out yourcompany at mydomain.com, 
but in addition I have an email box set up called 
spamdump at mydomain.com, which I never check.

If an address given to a particular company starts getting spam, I'll 
permanently redirect that address to spamdump; and if it's a legitimate 
company I'll write them a letter telling them that I've started getting 
spam from the address I gave them (and put the screws on 'em a little 
bit) and tell them my new address is yourcompany1 at mydomain.com.

Toss in a baysean filter to catch the stuff that gets sent to 
randomstring at mydomain.com and I get hardly any spam.  I've been doing 
this for years.  Only weak point is that I haven't yet gotten enough 
spam to properly train the filter ;)

Steve


On Apr 19, 2004, at 6:47 AM, Kelly Hallman wrote:

> I used to use
>    yourcmpnyname at mydomain.name but eventually concluded even if I could
>    nail down who was selling or giving my address, there was little
>    recourse or incentive to do it.