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| From | Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: recommended free email? |
| Date | 2016-01-28 11:46 -0500 |
| Organization | National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Message-ID | <alpine.LNX.2.02.1601281141390.14741@darkstar.example.org> (permalink) |
| References | <4d02e0c0-31e6-4263-a4c1-a74e2682d4ec@googlegroups.com> <dgg531Fbnf9U1@mid.individual.net> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1601231053280.5652@darkstar.example.org> <s4SdnZs2BZN3sjTLnZ2dnUU7-SOdnZ2d@giganews.com> <n8bjbj$cos$1@dont-email.me> |
On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Dave Garland wrote: > On 1/27/2016 3:00 PM, Jon Elson wrote: >> Michael Black wrote: >> >> >>> The third is the one I gave my sister, and there's a trickle of real email >>> there. But, the spam is amazing. Not only lots of it, but I swear it's >>> related to my sister's use of gmail, since there is a lot of dog and >>> health related stuff. Almost relevant, but I sure didn't ask for it. >> Sure, post your real email right here, and within two days, you will get >> spam, possibly even related to something discussed on here. These >> harvesters of email really spread the emails they have found around to >> purveyors of all sorts of dreck. >> > > Could be. But I've been using a real email address for a decade, and never > noticed any spam related to a.f.c. > > I get a lot of spam, but most of it is from nonprofits/advocacy > groups/politicians, who obviously share email lists with each other. And IT > headhunters with Indian names, one of who made a typo years ago that put me > on his list, and now dozens of them send to me. It's easy to delete en masse > just by looking at the sender/subject (the headhunters get tossed with filter > rules). There is apparently some filtering at namecheap (which my mail comes > through), and my ISP... I can't tell if they filter, or just randomly throw > mail away. > > I think it depends on the ISP. I don't get much spam at my Ottawa Freenet email, and I only use that for posting to USENET. I think they must have a good spam filter. I seem to recall more spam at my last ISP where I used the email address on USENET, but I also think they filtered well because I never got the amount others seemed to complain about. Though it's subjective, "too much spam" might mean one or two to someone while another's threshold is much higher. There was one period, around 1999, when there was a virus or something aimed right at USENET, if I didnt' clear out my inbox every few hours, it would reach its quota. Went on for a few days, the amount coming in was amazing. I've never scrambled my email address on USENET in 20 years, so obviously I don't get enough spam to bother me. Michael
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