-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 07:34 , takeitez wrote: > Other than constantly changing my email is there no way to stop this? > Spam > filters only catch the most obvious, blacklist-style mailers. I recently > learned for example that an ISP offers spam filters which catch all the > mass > mailers but few if any of the non-blacklisted mailers.
There are a few ways, with varying levels of difficulty on your end: 1) Use a more advanced filter. I've yet to have a false-negative with Spamassassin and the only false-positived was a rather spamish message from who now knows better and this lets you keep a single preferred address. Spamcop is pretty good, although their recent service change replaced perfect filtering with a mid-90% filter from my perspective and it's now well behind Spamassassin on my accounts. The downside is that you need the ability to filter email, which either means a smart email client, a spam-hostile ISP or your own shell account / mail server; depending on the system, keeping your filters current may require a non-trivial amount of time. It may be easier to pay someone else to do this: http://www.spamcon.org/directories/filtered-mailboxes.shtml 2) Use wildcard addressing to minimize the cost of losing a single address. I use this with registrations and it comes in handy - after flashinthepan.com folds and resells your address, you can filter anything to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I generally have it forward to their contact address with an explanation). This scheme is guessable and a spammer trying a dictionary attack will be a real pain in the ass but it's extremely simple to use and doesn't require any special software or changes in the way you use email. 3) Use temporary addresses which are only valid for a certain period of time: http://www.spamcon.org/services/dea/. This approach works best in combination with #1 as you're going to do need long term addresses ("Mom? I'm glad I caught you at home - I wanted to give you this week's address") - for the temporaries to forward to if nothing else. I'm using a combination of 1 & 2. I have a central IMAP store on my webhost's system and run spamassassin from various .qmail files - this is quite effective. I'm still deciding whether to be bastardly and bounce anything which isn't PGP-signed but there's more advocacy than need behind that at this point. Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (Darwin) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjzeC+0ACgkQpwjw3VnGunQSGQCgvUeN8C4/EpQLhzICTlQYSOMF VtgAn3CRIgWLvUb4BJdyQuc1fwfzH3td =wpeS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
