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2003-06-09

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-06-09 11:56 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 additional hint: never click on their link to be removed from that mailing list. All that does is tell them there is an active email account at the address so they can sell it to other lists. Ergo - notice my email: Fsmokey@Nospam.cox.net keeps the email bots from sifting and getting the right email adddress. Spam sucks

Posted by Frank G 2003-06-09 12:34:45|| 2003-06-09 12:34:45|| Front Page Top

#2 My suggestion is to use a free email service, e.g. Hotmail or Yahoo, and not your normal home or work address, which I only give out to a select few people.

Many of the spammers are on to the tricks like including "no spam" or writing out the email address, e.g. "joe dot blow at hotmail dot com", and have included the more common in their filters, so it's not 100% foolproof.

Posted by Dar 2003-06-09 13:15:31|| 2003-06-09 13:15:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Instead of "filters", I meant to say "parsers".

Posted by Dar 2003-06-09 13:17:07|| 2003-06-09 13:17:07|| Front Page Top

#4 http://friedspam.net/

Posted by mark 2003-06-09 14:17:34|| 2003-06-09 14:17:34|| Front Page Top

#5 You might consider planting a bot-trap at the top of your site. Not every bot abides by the robots.txt restrictions.

Posted by mojo 2003-06-09 14:53:23|| 2003-06-09 14:53:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Try Popfile. http://popfile.sourceforge.net/old_index.html

It's free and it uses a baysian filter that "learns" what YOU consider to be spam and then handles it accordingly.

I've been using it for several months and haven't had a single false positive in ages.

Posted by Glenn 2003-06-09 20:04:31|| 2003-06-09 20:04:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Glenn - What do you define as a false positive...email you wanted to recieve but didn't, (and how do you know IF YOU DIDN'T SEE IT!?) Hows are you doing on false negatives...spam that creeps by and still slimes your inbox?

Posted by Watcher 2003-06-10 01:54:58|| 2003-06-10 01:54:58|| Front Page Top

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