From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 01:26:02 PDT
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 22:33, John M Powell wrote:
> Dave,
>
> I suspect it's something other than from this list. I've
> been on for a long time, and get very very (very) little
> spam. My email address is sometimes even posted in the email
> body, which would make it easier to harvest. I did see a slight
> increase shortly after the Blaster made it's rounds. My guess is
> it's been harvested from some other location. Whatever you do,
> don't ask them to take you off their list. That's guaranteed to
> have the exact opposite response.
If your e-mail client has the option of faking a bounced message (Kmail
does, but you'd need Linux for that), I can confirm that a judicious use
of that feature for a couple of weeks will reduce spam to almost zero.
Of course, it helps if your ISP does some pre-filtering as well...
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