8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
6:45 p.m.
Jerome H. Fine wrote:
of shifting from dialup to high speed was that I had
to change my e-mail address. Spam dropped from 30 per
day to zero for the next year. So far this year it is
I get well over 200 a day. Filtering keeps about 99% of them out, and never a
false positive (I got 2 false positives last year and I didn't respond to them
anyway because I didn't care to reply to them :-)
This is because I've had my email address for nearly a decade, and I have no
plans on changing it. I will never change my email address, because I want my
friends to always have a way to contact me. Spam sucks, but not having your
friends able to contact you sucks more.
which incoming e-mails should be deleted, I first
disconnect the system from the internet (unplug the RJ45).
Some e-mails attempt to connect directly to an internet
address. If the internet connection is not working, this
tends to be an added protection. The disconnect takes
about 3 seconds since I added a second RJ45 cable and a
female to female connector right beside the keyboard.
Does anyone else do this as well?
No, I run email clients that don't have vulnerabilities!!! Change your email
client to something that doesn't attempt to run trojans! (Thunderbird, mutt,
pine, etc.)
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