[CS-FSLUG] How to keep from getting spammed?

[Jerry Van Brimmer]

What a pain spam is. I've been working lately on how to avoid spam. I have one 
ISP account that is so infested with spam that I am canceling it. I'd like to 
know, how do all of you avoid/control/handle spam? Right now, Verizon is my 
ISP,  but I have all of my mail forwarded/routed through Runbox.com, which 
has pretty good spam filtering. That way I don't have to deal with it on my 
computer, it gets filtered out on their server. There are some services which 
operate on a challenge/respond system, i.e. spamarrest.com, bluebottle.com, 
and cashette.com, are three that I am familiar with. But some legitimate 
senders are offended by this, so for now that's why I decided to go with 
runbox.com, they use a combination of spammassassin and dshield. I would like 
to start posting on some of the Linux newsgroups, but I know that is one of 
the prime harvesting fields for spammers to collect email addresses. So for 
now I am avoiding them. So, I'd like to hear from everybody, what do you do 
to avoid spam? If you do post on newsgroups, do you munge your email address, 
or what do you do? If you have a foolproof system for avoiding spam, I'd like 
to know about it. So, lets talk spam!

Jerry,
a spam hater

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