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Originally posted by hydro
Like i said above if you really do hate getting spam then just get a new email address and only give that to people who need to contact you and dont use it on whois information or when buying stuff online.
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What about those of us who run a business online and need our email to be available to any and everyone who might wish to contact us? Should we make our potential customers jump through hoops just so we can avoid spam? I've gone so far as to unlink my email (inconvenient for my clients) or use the hahahahahahahahahaha "trick" to "hide" my email from 'bots. I use MailWasher and still I get hundreds of spam emails a day. Yeah, I "just delete them", but my time is valuable to me.
I don't currently own a home; I don't need to refinance. I don't currently own a penis; I don't need to enlarge one. I am not overweight and in need of Phentermine. I'm perfectly happy with my auto insurance policy, I don't believe that the right sunglasses or a $160 "Rolex" will make me cool. I am not even remotely in the target audience for a good 95% or more of the spam I receive. The spammers are wasting their time and mine. In addition, they are making it virtually impossible for legitimate email campaigns to be as succesful as they should. (See all kinds of legislation, pending or otherwise, for example.)
I 'ate spam!