The amount of spam I receive is incredible. I'm not sure how I ended up under this deluge but I've been investigating some ways to battle it. Lately, I've been trying a service called 0Spam. It will scan your email accounts and cleanse them of spam remotely. You can specify certain whitelists or blacklists and best of all, it's free. Supposedly it will even do Yahoo mailboxes although I had some trouble setting that up.
If you use Outlook Express you can also try Spam Pal. Spam Pal has helped me to reduce the amount of spam I have to wade through at work. It allows you to check your email against a list of known spammers and also scans through the contents of the email looking for certain telltale signs of spamness.
One sure way to reduce the amount of spam is not to give out your email address at all. Mailinator comes in handy when someone asks for an email address and you have to give it at least once. Just make up an address @mailinator.com and you're all set. You don't have to even sign up beforehand. Just make up a unique address and you can go to Mailinator to check it.
Finally, I was over at Watcher of Weasels and noticed there were links that look like they're intended to kill or otherwise curtail said spambots. I guess the idea is to put those links on your blog and when they follow them - POW! Right in the Kisser. (Or something like that.) So, you miserable little spambots don't forget to go here, here, here or even here.
I went to a place that built an encrypted html code for my site. Just random looking numbers.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
Hard for bots to read the encrpyted information
I get about one spam a week at my yahoo address. But I am small fries.
Hmmm - I'm trying to remember, I think it was 0Spam that Kate of Electric Venom tried to use one time, I hope they've improved it. I sent her a couple of emails and 0Spam was sending me spam advertisements about it's service in return!!! How weird is that. Maybe it's how she had it set up. Anyway, I know she ended up dropping that one. I've been pretty lucky so far - the spambots haven't completely buried me - and Yahoo's email takes care of most of the junk I've been getting.
Posted by: Teresa at June 23, 2004 10:04 PMHubby and I tried to set up 0spam - it won't work with insightbb. I get so much on my yahoo account - over 200 spam mails daily. I've had that account about 5 years, so I am loathe to give it up and make a new alias. *sigh* At least the recent increase in storage space for yahoo is a nice thing.
Posted by: Deb at June 23, 2004 11:11 PMYaoi, I think you're trolling for spam so I'm not going to reply to you. Otherwise, look at the date on the top of the page.
-JDM