misc crap

[Lawrence Weeks]

On 6/1/05, Raymond Kawski <sr20de at e-rak.com> wrote:
> On Wed,  1 Jun 2005 16:50:19 -0500, Wayne wrote

>> The spammers love it,too  :(

> Only if he lists his email address in the message.  Just checked and from
> email addys are blah at blah.com so it's atleast a little harder.

But spammers know how to unmunge that easily enough.

I used to try to fight spammers getting into the archives... there are
still some latent mechanisms at work. However, the only real way to
protect it is with a password, and that's just a PIA. Nowadays, spam
is just an annoying fact of life. Like I've said before, I personally
get about 30 to 40 thousand spams a month. My email address is 12
years old and very simple, so I'm sure it is on every spam list there
is, in addition to being vulnerable to simple dictionary attacks.

As an aside, gmail has a pretty good spam filter. I forward all of my
default pre-spam filtered e-mail (non mailing list or administrative
crap) to gmail so I can read it via the web. My gmail spam box has
31091 new messages as of right now, a thirty day supply. It only lets
maybe ten a day through to my Inbox, and considering the quantity of
spam I get, that is damn good. Around 1% or less. I have fifty gmail
invitations to hand out if anybody wants one...

Larry
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Lawrence Weeks                                    lweeks at anabasis.net
Anabasis Consulting Ltd