Re: [scots-l] change of address

[Ian J L Adkins]

I have to sympathize with Jack -- spam is the bane of my existence, and I
change E-mail addresses almost annually to escape it.  I'm pretty
selective about what I use this address for and thus far I've kept it
spam-free.  One of the strategies I've employed is using a Hotmail account
as a contact point for websites and E-commerce, it has pretty decent spam
filters and if need be I can delete it and start over again without any
fuss.  I even use it as the listed point of contact for the U.S. Coast
Guard sites I administer.  Spammers have no compunctions against spamming
government, military or academic addresses.


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[scots-l] change of address

[Jack Campin]

I am sending this to four lists I subscribe to.

I will be signing off these lists under my present address, hopefully
resubscribing under a new one when I get back from holiday; this
address has now become completely unusable due to spam (about 300 spams
a day, requiring a filter update before every single download) and will
be inactivated in a few days as I change my mail delivery mechanism.
I will then have no way to know what has been sent to the address I'm
writing from now, and I'm not sure if you'll even get a bounce message
if you use it.

You can get to me off-list by emailing j-c at this site; that address
will persist indefinitely (the worst I've had sent to it is a few
viruses from friends with regrettable tastes in software).  I won't
be using it for any mailing list, though - it seems that no list is
proof against bozos leaking bits of it out to the web where it can be
spidered for From: lines.  (Obscure as it is, the woodenflute list
has been hit that way recently; my woodenflute userid, invalidated
a year ago and unused since, has started getting spams over the last
month).

Other addresses I use are unaffected by this.


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