Ron Jones wrote: > > Easy to not have any spam - not seen any for *ages*. You just need a system > that has... > 1. Multiple e-mail addresses possible > 2. Filtering at server. > > All my group mail / newsgroup mail has [email protected] - the spammers > can have this one - it makes not one difference to me. > The mail server function for that address is to auto reply with "spam trap - > use (temp)" - temp is not my main address, it just allows others to get in > touch (all spammers, of course, never open/get the auto reply). When > someone uses the temp (which I can easily delete and replace with a > different one if needed), and I want to talk, then I can send them the true > mail address. > > That costs me a hosting package at £19+vat per year (inc domain renewal) - > money well spent IMHO.
There are dangers with filtering at server. I'm not getting any automatic bug reports which should be emailed to me from the development version of CanalPlanAC. They're leaving the web server's network, but not making it to me. To get from one to the other they don't even need to leave Plusnet, so I strongly suspect the new "Ironport" system Plusnet has introduced is dumping them as spam. They certainly are not particularly human friendly, but they *are* emails that I have told one computer I have access rights on to send to another that I own. It's another good example of how the sort of mindset that has wrecked the world's economy has wrecked the Internet, and how technological solutions are never quite the answer.
