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

[N. Thompson]

On September 21, 2004 09:47 pm, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
[snip]
> lets talk spam!
>
> Jerry,
> a spam hater

I have a few e-mail accounts, one with our ISP, one with Yahoo and one with 
MyRealBox.  I used to use MyRealBox mostly as one I'd tell to people I don't 
know well however since Yahoo increased my space I've started using them 
more.

Back when I had a RoadRunner account I was getting a deluge of spam, from what 
I've observed over time it would seem the most common place for Spammers to 
collect e-mail addresses is in mailing lists and especially on usenet. I 
don't think the CS-FSLUG list is a common place for spammers to collect 
addresses though since I've lost track of how long I've been subscribed to it 
and during that time when I've changed e-mail addresses I didn't start 
getting spam again until I did something like post my e-mail address on the 
internet.

At one point with RoadRunner though I had to set up filters in KMail that 
would send everything to the trash with the exception of anything with 
[CS-FSLUG] or nospam (upper or lower case) in the subject line. As it is 
right now a fair number of e-zines have been predicting the end of e-mail 
although I'd rather not lose the only method I have of transferring homework 
between home and school (no storage mediums are allowed because they're 
afraid of adding more viruses to the already ample collection lurking in the 
school network).

There's an interesting chapter on regular expressions in one of my Linux 
programming books as well as in the Qt documentation and a number of my Qt 
books, possibly even my Java books. I don't know however if KMail will allow 
me to set up filters that use regular expressions but it it did then I could 
have some powerfull spam filtering.

If you want a quick fix there is a program called E-Remove for Windows and a 
Linux clone of it available here: http://eremove.sourceforge.net , its not 
spam filtering but it will let you delete spam from the pop-server before 
downloading it with your e-mail client.