Roger Millin wrote: > For years I haven't received any significant amount of spam due, I > thought, to an efficient at-source spam filtering by my ISP Tiscali. > At one time you could enhance your spam filters on your mail home > page but this seemed to stop after they introduced a chargeable spam > and virus filtering at source. The problem was so low that it wasn't > even worth using Mailwasher. I don't really want to subscribe to > their chargeable method, even though the charge is very low, as I > don't need the anti-virus part of it due to my efficient AV on the > PC. Over the last week or so I have experienced a sudden upsurge of > spam (now about 20 per day) and I can't understand what has changed. > It is caught pretty effectively (about 90% of it) by my Microsoft > software and put into a spam folder which is easy to delete but still > I am concerned about the sudden influx which used not to be a > problem. Whether this is linked in some way to the recent buy out of > Tiscali by Car Phone Warehouse I'm not sure. > Has anyone else experienced a recent upsurge in spam and has anyone > any anti-spam suggestions other than returning to Mailwasher > please?(I'm not anti-Mailwsher just looking for newer alternatives). > Roger
I get *zero* spam and have done so for about a 1 year now. Here's my system... Get a domain with a cheap hosting package with multiple e-mail addresses (I use http://www.compila.com/pages/hosting/linux/bargainplan.html) and create addresses like these... 1. Decide on a nominal address (mine is [email protected]) - this will be the from address to use on all posts to mail lists and newsgroups. 2. Decide on a proper address (I'm not putting the real one it here!) lets say [email protected] 3. Decide on a random name temporary address ([email protected]) Create those addresses on the host, set any other mail to be deleted (i.e [email protected]) Set filters for the No.1 address A) Delete if domain is ronjones.org.uk - otherwise it will go round and round... B) Bounce with a message like "SPAM TRAP - change the 'ron@' to 'ron002q@' and resend, thanks" Tell people you trust address No.2. If anyone sees your mail in a list/group and sends a message then they will get the auto massage and you can pick up the mail when they resend to mail box No.3, and tell then the reall address if you want to. Spammers *never* read the bounce, so they won't get the message to change addresses - well three must have because I did get 3 spams on No.2, and I deleted the No.2 address and created a different one (and changed the message). You can also create other addresses for internet shopping, and kill the address if too much mail returns. Last time I checked the logs, No.1 was getting 400+ mails per day - and never one seen my me :-) But then I do use it on the newsgroups. Ron Jones Process Safety & Development Specialist Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near misses at http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert Einstein
