[Hidden-tech] Anti-spam help SUMMARY of suggestions andpreliminary results

[Edbride-PR]

I never heard (or read) anybody saying that switching your platform to a Mac would result in less spam. Maybe fewer viruses, but your choice of platform should have nothing to do with spam. Changing an email address from time to time will help. Your experience on Gmail is interesting, thanks for sharing it.

Ed
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  From: andrew bellak 
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  Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 7:49 AM
  Subject: RE: [Hidden-tech] Anti-spam help SUMMARY of suggestions andpreliminary results


     



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  Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions.  Let me summarize the feedback I received below.



  Switch to Mac, it may get less spam



  Switch e-mail client interface to Mozilla mail (Thunderbird), it probably will reduce spam.  I've considered this in the past but thought the hassle of importing Outlook into Thunderbird was greater than what I chose to try first.



  Switch domain hosts or urge current host to really use the mail server tools like Spam Assassin, etc better.



  Switch e-mail addresses, that is, ditch the current and get new; or similarly, use 'throw away' addresses AND be very careful with where one uses addresses. i.e. - use personal/business addresses for friends & colleagues, and use web mail addresses for listservs/web sites, etc.



  Use anti-spam software - 2 people liked Cloudmark and 1 liked open source Spam Bayes



  And the one I decided to try first is 'scrub' mail through a web mail account like Yahoo, Hotmail, or Gmail.  I have a Yahoo account but it's not premium and so doesn't allow forwarding.



  Therefore, I opened a gmail account and now forward mail to gmail and then get this mail via Outlook.  In essence, I send directly from my addresses but I receive mail through the gmail scrubber.  Preliminary results are that I received 6 spam this morning versus 150-200 yesterday.



  This has not been totally seamless as I am still prompted by Outlook for a password for 1 account which I'm still wrestling with.



  Regards,

  Andrew



  Andrew Bellak

  Andrew at stakeholdersinc.com

  413-549-4589 home / office

  646-552-5783 mobile

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