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

[Don Parris]

Earthlink's SpamBlocker did a great job for me - now that I'm using
BellSouth, I'll find out how they do.  SpamBlocker let's you go so far
as to only allow those e-mails from people in your address book (on
the webmail site).  You have to approve strangers manually.  PowWeb,
my webhost, uses greylisting, mentioned in another e-mail on this
list.  I still a get a bit of spam, but very little.

Don

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:47:46 -0700, Jerry Van Brimmer
<jerryvb at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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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