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goBigtime · 03-20-2004, 07:50 AM

How to get rid of your SPAM.

This solution isn't for the masses because it might be considered too "complicated", but it will work perfectly for anyone here with zero lost emails and nearly no time lost filtering junk mail from real mail.

1. Buy a domain.

2. Give everyone their own custom email.

ie... you have a friend Robert, Jane, Sarah..

Give them:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

If you sign up for ebay... give them: [email protected]

If you sign up for dotster... use [email protected]

Never post your email address in plain text somewhere that it can be harvested but not changed (like Usenet or WWWboards)

If any of them get compromised, you can always log into your account and change your email address they have on file & blacklist the old one. If it was a personal contact, just send them like three emails to let them know you have updated THEIR email address for you because you ahve been getting spam on it, and now its [email protected] for example.

It is very easy to blacklist email addresses with Qmail:

Just create a dotfile with the account you want to blacklist:

.qmail-robert

and put: /dev/null

inside it... that's it! No more mail will be delivered from that address.

I found that 90% of my spam mail came from my domain contacts. Luckily I was using [email protected] so all I had to do was update the contact info and blacklist the old domain.

Those domain contact spam lists are very old. It is much harder (but not impossible) to harvest big numbers of whois records for free now... so if you were to update your contact information and blacklist the old address(s) then you would see a huge drop of spam without any collateral damage (lost valid emails)

Spam can definitely effect your progress throughout the day by cutting into the amount of time you have to spend working on things. This method will help you reclaim most of that lost time.

Btw... it's not hard to start using this method retroactively. Just look at your contact list & start logging into your accounts and changing the addresses on file. If they are personal contacts, just be sure to update them with their new email address for you.

03-20-2004, 07:50 AM
goBigtime Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 7,761	How to get rid of your SPAM. This solution isn't for the masses because it might be considered too "complicated", but it will work perfectly for anyone here with zero lost emails and nearly no time lost filtering junk mail from real mail. 1. Buy a domain. 2. Give everyone their own custom email. ie... you have a friend Robert, Jane, Sarah.. Give them: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] If you sign up for ebay... give them: [email protected] If you sign up for dotster... use [email protected] Never post your email address in plain text somewhere that it can be harvested but not changed (like Usenet or WWWboards) If any of them get compromised, you can always log into your account and change your email address they have on file & blacklist the old one. If it was a personal contact, just send them like three emails to let them know you have updated THEIR email address for you because you ahve been getting spam on it, and now its [email protected] for example. It is very easy to blacklist email addresses with Qmail: Just create a dotfile with the account you want to blacklist: .qmail-robert and put: /dev/null inside it... that's it! No more mail will be delivered from that address. I found that 90% of my spam mail came from my domain contacts. Luckily I was using [email protected] so all I had to do was update the contact info and blacklist the old domain. Those domain contact spam lists are very old. It is much harder (but not impossible) to harvest big numbers of whois records for free now... so if you were to update your contact information and blacklist the old address(s) then you would see a huge drop of spam without any collateral damage (lost valid emails) Spam can definitely effect your progress throughout the day by cutting into the amount of time you have to spend working on things. This method will help you reclaim most of that lost time. Btw... it's not hard to start using this method retroactively. Just look at your contact list & start logging into your accounts and changing the addresses on file. If they are personal contacts, just be sure to update them with their new email address for you. Last edited by goBigtime; 03-20-2004 at 07:55 AM..