[X4U] Stopping Spam - Does Anything Work?

[Crandon David]

I use Apple's Mail junk filter. Last year received about 13,000 spam 
emails.

Mail had a 10% false negative rate, but I can only remember about 2-3 
false positives the whole year.

That's pretty good.

David


On Jan 15, 2005, at 6:23 AM, revDAVE wrote:

> I have a favorite older e-mail address, that gets around 100 or more 
> Spam
> E-Mail's per day. Even though my Spam filter does a great job ( Spam 
> Sieve),
> I am getting very sick of checking the spam Mail for false positives 
> prior
> to deletion.
>
> So, before I retire my favorite old email address,  I was wondering if
> there's any way to get spammers to stop -  Org least cut down on 
> spamming
> you?
>
> For example:  I know that a major No - No is to respond to the sender -
> however what about sending them a bounce back message? Would that help 
> at
> all?
>
> At one point I deleted  a highly spammed e-mail address ( at the ISP 
> server)
> for three months -  in the hopes that spammers would see this as a dead
> address -  but when I recreated that address ( at the ISP host ) -  
> the Spam
> started right back up again...
>
> - are there any other tricks I can try first?
>
> - Losing Good New E-mail's
>
> Also:  Given the above situation - with tons of Spam associated with an
> address ... A new problem has arisen for me: ...  Basically, as I 
> checked
> for false positives in the Spam folder ...  There is a greater and 
> greater
> chance - that a legitimate E-mail sent from a good person who is new - 
>  and
> not in my e-mail address book - will get missed -  and I will 
> accidentally
> toss it. Is there any way to protect against this type of loss? For 
> example
> - if a friend of mine tells me that a friend of his might send me 
> E-mail - I
> will either try to get it and add that person's e-mail address in 
> advance -
> or will tell my friend to tell the person to write something crazy in 
> the
> subject line that I will not miss...
>
>  Any Other Good Tricks?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks - RevDave
> CoolCat at hostalive.com
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>
>
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