 AladrinCode Junkie
join:2001-01-25
Orlando, FL | Not giving away your email address... Not giving your email address out on the internet would be good, except that you could NEVER sign up for anything, ever. After 6 years of the same email address (and let's face who, who WANTS to change?) I get a torrent of SPAM. My solution was to join SpamGourmet.com! I added my friends to my trusted list and then forwarded my address to a spamgourmet one, then back to one that has NEVER seen the light of day. It works very very well.
I opened it up for 5 letters the other day because I was expected something immediately and I had the 2 I expected and 3 SPAM within 5 minutes.
Prior to this, I had to spend about about 20 minutes of my day complaining to ISPs about their spammers to keep SPAM under control. (It started at about an hour each day.) |
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 Wills
join:2001-01-03
Port Charlotte, FL | You can't give out your email? Then create a hotmail account for that.
Who wants to change their email address? Why is it such a heartache to change your email address? Would you stop from moving into a new home because you don't want to change your home address? Would you not move into a new home because you don't want to change your phone number?
Of course not. Then why is changing your email address like getting a root canal for you? It is simply and address. No different than a home address, no different than a phone number.
What really bothers me is that you'll spend 20 minutes out of your day bitching to ISP's but you won't take 20 minutes out of your day to learn how to avoid spam.
You have issues.
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| said by Wills:
What really bothers me is that you'll spend 20 minutes out of your day bitching to ISP's but you won't take 20 minutes out of your day to learn how to avoid spam.
That's the best way to avoid spam -- get the spammer's account cancelled so they can't spam anymore.
said by Wills:
You have issues.
Pot, meet Kettle. |
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Wills
join:2001-01-03
Port Charlotte, FL | How do you figure Pot, meet Kettle?
And no, the best way to avoid spam isn't to get the spammer's account cancelled so they can't spam anyone. Most ISP's won't cancel the account anyways.
The best ways to combat spam are to not give out your address. Sign up for a free email account to use if you have to. Properly code your email address if it has to be displayed on webpages and don't use addresses that are prone to dictionary attack.
Trying to get the spammers account cancelled is worthless as 1. it's probably a highjacked account, 2. IF the headers are valid to begin with. So you have wasted 20 minutes calling that ISP that could have been used to set up your system properly.
Pot, meet moron.
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 major marcoRes Firma Mitescere NescitPremium
join:2003-02-13
Stepford, CA
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ExLax Blues Is this the face of constipation or what. All your email are belong to us.
[text was edited by author 2003-05-23 21:49:29] |
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