I have 5 personal email addresses that I never give out to any web
services / on-line retailers, with perhaps 3 exceptions...and I
basically don't get any SPAM.
2 of these addresses I've had for a couple of months. 1 of the email
addresses (gmail), I've had for a almost 1.5 years? 1 email address
I've had for almost 7 years. The last email address, I've had for
over 10 years. I know that the 10 year-old email address has been
submitted at least 10 times to various websites by friends: nyt.com,
evite, networking sites, etc.
I don't have whitelists, blacklists, special filters or anything. Is
it just the magic server-side SPAM filters?
I have 2 spammy email addresses (yahoo and hotmail). I get 'spam'
from online etailers where I've signed up for accounts using these
email addresses. But I don't get much 'unsolicited' spam.
My OSAF email I get tons of spam, even though I've never
intentionally handed it out, but it's publicly available through our
mailing list archive?
How naive is it to hope that the email addresses we provide for
shared collections could escape SPAM the way my personal email
addresses seem to have escaped SPAM? (It seems unlikely that users
will use their [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address to
sign up for accounts on web sites.)
Is ' we don't have resources to implement an effective server-side
SPAM solution' an argument for shifting the burden of preventing/
managing SPAM onto the user in the short-term?
What are other people's experiences with email accounts and SPAM?
Mimi
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