I don't seem to get any spam on this gmail account, and I'm subscribed to a few lists. If anyone would like a gmail account, I have 50 (!) invitations left. I suppose everybody that wants one has one. I think it's a good account for mailing lists. Except that it encourages top-posting. :) On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:24:48 -0600, Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:33, Larry Troxler wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 20:55, Jon B wrote: > > > > unfortunately, it is true that i signed noah up for spam - after > > > > receiving a bunch of spam yesterday, and with my troll-like rage still > > > > brewing over our exchanges, i expediently blamed noah and signed him up > > > > on one of the pages the spam led to. > > > > > > Why are you using real email addresses on a mailing list in the first > > > place? > > > > > > > Because it's rude not to? > > > > Honestly, are people's spam filters that bad that they can't handle this, or > > is mine so bad in the other direction, that unbeknownst to me, I'm missing > > most of the private mail I get? > > > > I always use my real email address on all the email lists I'm subsrcribed to, > > and also on usenet, and also on all web based message boards. > > > > And yet, I at most I get about 20 unsolicited commercial emails per day, more > > typically only about 5 per day. > > > > Again, since I seem to be the only one not worried about this problem, I > > wonder if I'm somehow missing valid emails. But I don't think so, because I > > haven't had any such complaints. > > > > So, what gives? What's the magical difference about my ISP that I don't have > > to make life difficult for other people by mangling my email address, and > > making them go through contortions to reply to me? > > > > I seem to be in about the same shape. I only get one or two a day > that get through the spam filter. Probably on the order of five per day > total. I've only found two emails in the last year that ended up in my > spam filter that were valid. > > Jan > >
