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how to stop unwanted spam?????

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Evilgoat:
Carbore - Its a little bit more complex than that, well actually a lot :)

A major line of my employers business is Anti-Spam and its a never ending arms race. You are more likeley to get spannered if you publish your address anywhere on the net including here. Sign up to stuff on the net, CC a lot of these chain mails and joke mails and have mates who cant secure their system.

Webmail systems are abovious targets too so moving to one a little less known should help.

Messagelabs bring their own issues, not least they were in the news more than a few times a couple of months ago for some scary screw-ups.

Go search for them on Theregister.co.uk

strapping young lad:
i have a simple way of avoiding spam as much as i can

1) have a "public" email address where you would use to register on websites, is web-based (for two reasons.. one so it doesnt clog your pc, and second so anything malicious doesnt make its way to you)

2) have a "me" email address to which you would give to, say mates, employers, cv, family, that kind of thing... i know this isnt foolproof as your mates, etc will have you email address in their address book, and if they get trojanned or whatever it is, your email address will be picked up.


as i said it aint foolproof but it works for me

i use hotmail or point 1. and gmail for point 2 (as its got a decent spam removal tool too, plus it can be used as a pop account to download to outlook

SteveGoodz:
If you're accessing your email through a client application (e.g. Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc) then I highly recommend Mailwasher (www.firetrust.com). This looks at your inbox(es) and classifies emails as spam or okay and can delete the spam before it is downloaded to your pc. There are black and white lists so you can add friends, etc., and their mails are always accepted as okay. The program also links into Spamcop and uses their database to find emails from known spammers.

I get about 80 spam emails per day and Mailwasher correctly recognises about 97% and I can't remember the last time it incorrectly tagged a good email as bad.

HTH  :D

Manicminer:
I haven't had any spam for about 18 months

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