On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Email addresses used with other vendors are a different story. Oh the > spam I get from an address I've only used with JetBlue, and as much as I > like their flights I must say I've found it disturbing that I've been unable > to find anyone in that company willing to investigate the source of the > privacy leak. > For this very reason I set up a specific account to receive the avalanche of spam/junk/phishing mail I expected to receive from 'dubious' commercial enterprises that wanted an e-mail address but I really didn't feel comfortable about giving my 'real' e-mail address. Hire car, airlines, hotels, warranty/registration for hardware/software, etc etc the list goes on and on. As a joke the e-mail address looks like this [XXXword][dot]junkmail[at]gmail.com I've had the address over 2 years, used it hundreds of times and to date never received a single spam/junk/phish mail. I visit it every month or so, and all that's ever there is an electronic receipt for a car used, or acknowledgment of product registration - all just valid e-mails:-) At first I figured that gmail was just very good at filtering spam, and it is, but my other accounts do receive a trickle of junkmail. So I've since figured that the automated software that spammers use to generate their 'products' naturally avoid XXX words, the words spam, junkmail, phishing or anything else that is likely to trigger spam filters. As such, my address is automatically avoided ;-) I may be wrong, but you may want to try setting up a similar worded e-mail address and see if it works for you. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
