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Some Ways To Avoid Spam On Gmail
jafo writes "In general, Gmail has been extremely spam-free. More recently, however, it's gotten dramatically worse. I've written up some thoughts on Gmail spam and keeping the spam down. Want less spam on Gmail (and likely others)? Try generating an account name using "apg -M L -t"."
My postman is such a putz - ever since I subscribed to the 'slashdot postal catalogue', he has [rather cunningly] worked out that I read slashdot.
... then he drives off laughing like an idiot - it is very annoying and I would like it to stop - can anyone give me some advice?
Now, since that my address is 1 Aardvark Avenue, Australia; I am the first person that gets his mail delivered off the truck.
So just as I go out the door on my way to work, he drives up - delivers my mail (very dramatically) and yells "FIRST POST"
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power, just because some watery tart threw a sword at you
and then you end up with an email address that you have to keep written on a post-it stuck to your monitor so you can remember it.
I have absolutely NO spam on my gmail account. Why? Because my email address is l1OO0100lO1l100lO1l01@gmail.com. Or 1O00100lO1l1O0lO110l@gmail.com. Or 100O100lOl11O0lO110l@gmail.com... I forget which. But that's an implementation detail; the important point is that I get absolutely no spam!
Sure, it's "tiasi54ffcb44334bcvxw53ezz3wr@gmail.com," that is t as in this, r as in really, i as in is, a, s as in stupid, i as in idea...
Hey, I wanted this gmail adress... dammit, the good names are always gone when I want to register something...
I don't need a signature.
It's a well written article, but I don't feel it brings anything new to the discussion. Yes, spammers were eventually going to target GMail because of it's popularity, but there isn't really any detailed information in the article as to how Google is defending itself, merely a lot of (interesting) specualtion.
And while the same techniques are used to try and stop spammers from finding your account, there aren't any gmail specific ideas, which is what I hoped I would find int he article.
I'm not stressed. I'm just terribly, terribly alert.
"Want less spam on Gmail (and likely others)? Try generating an account name using apg -M L -t""."
This helps to get less email from your friends as well.
The evidence is empirical. The conclusions are common sense. I'm surprised the article doesn't talk about False Positives, the bane of spam filtering. I usually sign up for a few mailing lists, and then create filters to automatically archive them. Recently, a lot of my mailing list traffic has been marked as Spam, even though my filter specifically says to archive all mail from the list.
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Get an email address from here:
m nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/
http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijkl
most spammers won't think you're serious.
Want to know a secret?? Gmail does have POP3 access. configure it from your preferences. You have to manually enable it.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.