On 10 Jan 2005 at 6:33, dhbailey wrote: > A-NO-NE Music wrote: > > > At how the email currently is being, dealing with SPAM is wasting > > time for me. When I get "confirmation request" from a list member, > > I simply add that to my SPAM list. I will never see it again :-) > > > > I receive over 500 SPAM a day throughout 13 mail accounts I have. > > SPAMSieve does a pretty good job putting them into trash can. > > Wow, I have 3 e-mail addresses, have had them for about 3 years now, > and I average about 5 to 10 spam messages a day. I wonder if my hosts > (I have one that hosts my web-site and another which is my ISP, > Comcast) have already filtered them out before they reach my mailbox.
If you've never posted the email addresses on a web page or Usenet (or in any mailing list that archives on the web with unmunged email addresses), then your address has probably not been harvested by spammers. Because my email addresses were on the web in clear text back in 1996 and frequently posted on Usenet from 1994 on, I ended up on every spammer's list. Once your address is on the list, you can't take it off -- you can only abandon the address (which is what I'm transitioning into doing). If I had changed email addresses in the last 4 years or so, I probably wouldn't be experiencing spam (that's when I started munging my email address on Usenet and obscuring it with character encoding on my web pages), but an email address is something that it's hard to give up, like a long-used telephone number, so I've put up with the spam. Back when I got 100 a day (a year ago) it wasn't that bad. Now that I'm getting 200, it's unbearable. > In any event, when I get a challenge-response message, even from > someone I am legitimately trying to contact, I simply put it in the > trash, build a filter and never try to contact that person again. That is bloody stupid behavior. There are good reasons for someone to want to vette their incoming email, and you're breaking the system. Of course, you're really only harming yourself, isoloating yourself from those who are trying to avoid the spam onslaught. > I find such services disgusting and unnecessary -- it's like having to > send a letter to everybody who is sending me a letter to ask them if > they are really sending me a letter. The Postal Service would > probably welcome all the extra income that such stuff would generate > but it wouldn't stop the junk-mail from coming into my mailbox. The Postal Service already filters your email and doesn't send you mail that isn't legit (like mail that's addressed to a different person, but at your address). In any event, the comparison is spurious, because the sender bears the expense with postal nunk mail, while the recipient bears the expense with junk email. > I find clicking on the delete key to be just as easy as going through > all the bother to set up a whitelist service that I know will piss off > some of my correspondents and that I will lose the facility which is > the main benefit of e-mail. When you're receiving 5 or 10 spam messages a day, that's certainly probably true. If you ever end up receiving 100 or more, you will no doubt think differently. > I wish all of you who have built yourselves nice armored fortresses of > e-mail whitelist services all the best, but you won't get individual > e-mails from me. > > Not that will be any great loss to any of you, I'm sure. The loss will be to *you*. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
