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Anti-Spammers Wage E-War

Posted by michael on from the no-quarter-asked-or-given dept.

ncstockguy writes "To its credit the Hartford Courant followed up with a second article this time from the perspective of an anti-spammer." The first story was about the life and times of a spam king.

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  1. Spam Assassin by totallygeek · · Score: 5, Informative
    Let me say that I have never been happier since installing Spam Assassin. I reset the threshhold to 8, and get maybe five spam messages a week, as opposed to the more than 100 per day!

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  2. Re:Never actually noticed.... by pi+radians · · Score: 5, Informative
    If I click on the unsubscibe link, my email comes back undeliverable 75% of the time, and I seem to get more spam each day!

    Ahhh! That's the worst thing to do. All of the ones that DON'T come back undeliverable now know your email address is being checked and read. Not only are you telling them to send out more stuff to you, but they can sell your address to others for a greater amount of money. Never ever ask to unsubscribe. It's better to just right a filter that deletes it immediately.

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