While we're recapitulating spam experiences...
- I get about 6 spams a day sent directly to this address, and OSAF's
spam filter catches the vast majority. The address itself shows up in
a bunch of publicly visible places (list archives, svn archives,
bugzilla, at least), and is probably also not a difficult address to
guess. Interestingly, I have another variation on this address
(@o11n.org instead of osafoundation.org) that's just as guessable
from a dictionary point of view, and only appears in obscured form
(on my publicly viewable wiki page), and that I've never received any
spam sent to that address. (It's received a couple from real humans,
which is of course the point :). I'm not sure how dictionary-style
spamming selects domains, though.
- I have received very few (probably 30 at most) spams to my personal
(.Mac) account in 5 years or so of use. I do know of two instances (b/
c they were reported as mail client bugs!) of their spam filter
(Brightmail, at the time) swallowing legitimate mails. I give out
this address to friends and random sites on the web that want an
email address, FWIW, though I don't post to lists from it.
- My old (apple.com) work address received a similarly small amount
of spam over the years. I used to post intermittently to public
mailing lists from that address; in fact if you google my full name,
some of those postings show up. However, the archives of those lists
obscured email addresses, and that address doesn't show up in searches.
- My gmail account, which I have only ever used for signing up
friends (back in the day), arranging my interviews @ OSAF, and Google
Summer of Code, has never received a single spam.
- I have a publicly visible address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) that gets
about 1 legitimate mail a week, and 20-30 spams a day. My ISP's spam
filter seems to let 1-2 of those through a day, and also does an
amazingly consistent job of mercilessly tagging all the legitimate
mails as spam. As you might guess, that means it's basically useless ;).
--Grant
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