Spam makes Baby Jesus cry

[ChadTower]

So I'm going through my email, tons of spam, nothing new.

Then I notice this sequential chain of subject lines:

"make your penis harder longer" 
"cover your girl in cum" 
"your dog will love the taste"

Someone, please, make it stop.

[patrickl]

spamfilter

[ChadTower]

I have two layers of spam filter, they don't stop everything first try. 

[DaveMMR]

I have SpamAssassin on my e-mail server.  I used to get (literally) a hundred or more spams a day.  Now I get barely any at all.  I often check the filtered e-mail and not one was flagged in error.  Their scoring system is pretty ingenious. 

I think - but am not sure that - they have a version for home users.  Google it.

[lucindrea]

spamassassin is the best filter out their , well if you have a mail server , and i do think their is somthing for at home users also , my server "dumps" a few thousand e-mails daily , almost nothing gets through anymore

[danny_galaga]

So I'm going through my email, tons of spam, nothing new.

Then I notice this sequential chain of subject lines:

"make your <auto-censored> harder longer"

[shmokes]

I keep two email addresses.  One is carefully guarded and the other is the one I fill out forms with.  In more than five years I haven't had A SINGLE piece of unsolicited email in my inbox in the guarded one.  Importantly, I use the junkmail account for all my commerce.  When I buy computers for my work I put use my junkmail hotmail account rather than my legitimate work address, even though I'm buying from presumably trustworthy companies like Dell.

The proof is in the pudding -- over five years without one piece of junkmail and no special filtering.

edit:  Fascinating.  After I wrote that I got thinking, "what the hell is that supposed to mean, 'the proof is in the pudding'?  So I googled it and found this:

Perhaps it's a sign of our increasingly fast-paced, short-attention-span society that even our old proverbs are being shortened and clipped down from the original full sayings. Word Detective and other etymology sites pointed out that the phrase originated as "the proof of the pudding is in the eating." It means that the true value or quality of something can only be judged when it's put to use.

That makes a helluva lot more sense.

[lucindrea]

reminds me of the radio commercial where one guy calls another and they say a total of like 5 words to each other but have an entire conversation ... think it was a beer commercial - saying that whole thing about pudding is just too much effort heh

[DrewKaree]

reminds me of the radio commercial where one guy calls another and they say a total of like 5 words to each other but have an entire conversation ... think it was a beer commercial - saying that whole thing about pudding is just too much effort heh

Nextel's IT Guy commercial was like that....he just keeps giving  him directions over the Direct Connect without listening to what the guy is saying until he says "Problem Solved" and some guy at a bistro puts out the flaming notebook and replaces it with another.

[krick]

Has anyone tried disposable email addresses?
They rock...

http://www.spamgourmet.com/

[Matthew Anderson]

I use:

http://www.sneakemail.com for the stuff only I should see. Just take a look at my registered address. It forwards any email it gets to my real address. It also puts a label in the subject line so I know which sneakemail address it came from. If I start seeing spam I can just delete the email address on the sneakemail side.


http://www.mailinator.com is for the crap harvesters.

[Mameotron]

I do what you do, shmokes.

[danny_galaga]

i like to collect spam addresses and sign them up to a whole list of other SHITE sites that spam people! this only works for the semi-legitimate spammers though. sadly the really crap spammers only use their address once...