to avoid spam on gmail. Keep the gmail address private and use a disposable email address service such as (shameless plug alert) e4ward.com to forward mail to it.
Why people don't use disposable accounts is beyond me.
Me too. Perhaps filters are just technically more interesting. But the best place to stop spam is at the outer walls (the SMTP handshake - 550 user unknown). With a disposable account, if your email address is not in circulation (and is not easily guessable) it simply won't get any traffic of any kind except through your aliases, which can be disposed of if they become compromised. I believe keeping one's mailbox address secret is the only fullproof defense against receiving unsolicited email.
E4ward.com has very flexible aliases allowing any localpart name you want plus you can use your own domain name(s), and the aliases are not restricted by expiration or usage count.
is to prevent spam from ever reaching being sent to your mailbox in the first place. Thats how DEA (disposable email address) systems work. The email address you check (your mailbox address) and the address you give out (an alias) are 2 different addresses. Spammers can't spam your mailbox because the address is secret (and should also be unguessable). OTOH if they ever get ahold of one of your aliases, you can just dispose of it, with minimal impact (aliases are assigned one per contact). DEA is kind of like password protecting your email.
To me, the primary problem with spam is that emails are too easily spoofable. Solve this and spam will become *much* more manageable.
There is one part of email which never be spoofed: the envelope recipient. This fact forms the basis of a good defense to spam. If a spammer cannot spoof your (envelope) to-address, and if he does not have said address, he cannot spam you. An email address treated with the same security as a password (secret, and difficult to guess), cannot be spammed.
This takes care of the spam, but how to allow the legitimate mail in? A second email address called an alias can be given to contacts instead of the secret address. Each contact is given a unique alias. The alias is still vulnerable to spam but unlike a shared public address it can be easily disposed of if it gets on spam lists without disruption to all of your other legitimate email.
This type of system is known as disposable email addresses (DEA) and can be 100% effective against spam, if one is willing to abandon the notion of a using a single public email address that is shared by all one's contacts.
Slashdot Mirror
searchterm1 searchterm2 bogus
and how I would have liked the search engine to actually search for:
searchterm1 searchterm2 (bogus OR fake OR spurious OR wrong OR specious OR ...etc)
by being able to specify a qualifier on bogus eg, bogus:synonyms
to avoid spam on gmail. Keep the gmail address private and use a disposable email address service such as (shameless plug alert) e4ward.com to forward mail to it.
E4ward.com has very flexible aliases allowing any localpart name you want plus you can use your own domain name(s), and the aliases are not restricted by expiration or usage count.
If anything, this should be opt-in, or at least, opt-out.
is to prevent spam from ever reaching being sent to your mailbox in the first place. Thats how DEA (disposable email address) systems work. The email address you check (your mailbox address) and the address you give out (an alias) are 2 different addresses. Spammers can't spam your mailbox because the address is secret (and should also be unguessable). OTOH if they ever get ahold of one of your aliases, you can just dispose of it, with minimal impact (aliases are assigned one per contact). DEA is kind of like password protecting your email.
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There is one part of email which never be spoofed: the envelope recipient. This fact forms the basis of a good defense to spam. If a spammer cannot spoof your (envelope) to-address, and if he does not have said address, he cannot spam you. An email address treated with the same security as a password (secret, and difficult to guess), cannot be spammed.
This takes care of the spam, but how to allow the legitimate mail in? A second email address called an alias can be given to contacts instead of the secret address. Each contact is given a unique alias. The alias is still vulnerable to spam but unlike a shared public address it can be easily disposed of if it gets on spam lists without disruption to all of your other legitimate email.
This type of system is known as disposable email addresses (DEA) and can be 100% effective against spam, if one is willing to abandon the notion of a using a single public email address that is shared by all one's contacts.
www.e4ward.com