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  • From: Leigh Hauter <lh AT pressroom.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] ADMIN: spam
  • Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:58:22 -0500

I assumed all of the spam was coming from website mining and not from lists.
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Hi, Folks!

I'm not getting any extra spam at all -- Earthlink's SpamGuard seems to really work for me.

However, how much spam you actually get seems to depend on two things:

1) if your e-mail address is on a website

or

2) if your e-mail address can be easily generated by random word generator

My cousin Ed and I use life interests (me, garlic; him, coin collecting) while my husband's e-mail is based on his name. Even with the Earthlink SpamGuard, he gets a few items of spam every day. We get almost nothing. If you look at the e-mail address on his spam, it's a bunch of randomly generated names, hoping one will hit.

I have a Yahoo address I give out for signing up for things -- it gets some spam (once again, based on random word generation), but Yahoo seems to adapt pretty well, also.

I believe the Federal Trade Commission collects spam. You might check on their website or with your own state's district attorney's office -- some states are cracking down.





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