[Hidden-tech] Anti-spam help

[DAVID F. FARKAS]

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>I look forward to the collective wisdom on this list to help me 
>reduce this nuisance.
I'm looking for good solutions too. I have access to the Spam 
Assassin settings at my ISP, but there is still lots of typical 
spam... offers from long lost Nigerian relatives, ways to make body 
parts larger, etc. Evidently the spammers are very clever about 
wording things so the filter don't pick them up.
Here are some tools I play with trying to minimize places spammers 
can find me...
www.Spamex.com  is an inexpensive service that lets you create blind 
email addresses on the fly whenever you need one. You forward the 
mail to your eddress through their server and there is no way to 
trace it. Create a new one every time you fill in an online form or 
join anything. Then if spam comes through that eddress you a) know 
who the spammer is and b) can just shut down that eddress. Can also 
be sued to create an eddress that sends text to your cell... cool 
trick for giving someone a quick way to contact you without having 
them having to remember, or revealing, you cell number.
Use forms on web sites instead of 'mailto:' links. The crawlers 
evidently don't pick up the email address that way.
Run your mail through GMail. I'm considering this. If you can forward 
your emai to gmail and look it over there. Their spam system is 
really easy to use and reputed to be fairly good. You would go to 
gmail, clean up the spam with a single click per email then forward 
to your regular email. Even easier, gMail can also forward your mail 
automatically and you could go back at  your leisure to tag spam. 
Next time that particular spam comes to gMail it will be removed 
automatically. Over time it would clean up a lot of what you're 
getting. Seems like an easier and perhpas better way than spam 
filters on your own computer... and you get to use gMail web mail 
when you're on the road.
Looking forward to hearing other solutions. This is always a problem, 
especially when you are using many eddresses to be able to sort mail 
automatically when it arrives.
Thanx for starting this thread!
Da/\id

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