I use a TMDA-like system where messages from unknown senders receive a
challenge message. If they reply to the challenge, that message is then
delivered to me. This way, if somebody new writes me and they receive the
challenge (like, if their spam software doesn't delete it!), I'm much more
likely to get the message.
I set this up by going through Entourage and getting a list of everybody who
I had sent email to in the last year, and everybody who had mailed me in the
last six months or so, and adding them in advance to the approved list. (I
manually edited this list, which was a chore, but ensured quality). That
way, most of my friends and colleagues never saw the challenge.
A friend took this a step further by marrying a Bayesian system with TMDA so
that only messages that were ambiguous would be challenged, while obvious
spam was dumped and obvious non-spam didn't get challenged.
Have I mentioned that I really hate spam. :-(
--Mike
> I have a favorite older e-mail address, that gets around 100 or more Spam
> E-Mail's per day. Even though my Spam filter does a great job ( Spam Sieve),
> I am getting very sick of checking the spam Mail for false positives prior
> to deletion.
>
> So, before I retire my favorite old email address, I was wondering if
> there's any way to get spammers to stop - Org least cut down on spamming
> you?
>
> For example: I know that a major No - No is to respond to the sender -
> however what about sending them a bounce back message? Would that help at
> all?
>
> At one point I deleted a highly spammed e-mail address ( at the ISP server)
> for three months - in the hopes that spammers would see this as a dead
> address - but when I recreated that address ( at the ISP host ) - the Spam
> started right back up again...
>
> - are there any other tricks I can try first?
>
> - Losing Good New E-mail's
>
> Also: Given the above situation - with tons of Spam associated with an
> address ... A new problem has arisen for me: ... Basically, as I checked
> for false positives in the Spam folder ... There is a greater and greater
> chance - that a legitimate E-mail sent from a good person who is new - and
> not in my e-mail address book - will get missed - and I will accidentally
> toss it. Is there any way to protect against this type of loss? For example
> - if a friend of mine tells me that a friend of his might send me E-mail - I
> will either try to get it and add that person's e-mail address in advance -
> or will tell my friend to tell the person to write something crazy in the
> subject line that I will not miss...
>
> Any Other Good Tricks?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks - RevDave
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>
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