> >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 '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Snowmen Fall from Heaven Unassembled '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." ~Winston Churchill '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" ~Shakespeare (Hamlet) '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' No trees were destroyed by sending this message. However, a significant number of electrons were sorely inconvenienced. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20080417/a1fbcfef/attachment-0006.html