[lug] Constant Spamming

[Ed]

>>>>> "S" == Samartha Deva <blug-receive at mtbwr.net> writes:

    S> True - it is a lot of effort initially to get it cleaned up.
    S> This may not be everyone's choice to do, here is what works for
    S> me:

    S> The problem is that email addresses are needed to stay in
    S> contact with others.

    S> If one email address is used for many important contacts and
    S> gets polluted, one has to either tolerate the spam or change
    S> the email address with all the contacts.

    S> Both options became unacceptable after doing this once.

<snip>

I use emacs Gnus to read mail. It allows me to split incomming mail
into various groups based on emacs regexps, and then it treats them as
newsgroups. 

I have a newsgroup for friends and family, and when I see that it has
something, I go there right away and check it out. My "other" group
ends up with all the mail not already idendified, this is 99% spam. I
check it every few days to see if anything important got in.

This works great and now I don't even worry about my email address
getting out there. Its all painless.

Ed


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