Brendan wrote:Can you give details about what the spam is like so we could compare it to the spam we get? I get a few pieces of spam sometimes with my main email, which I used for this forum.
Difficult, because I don't keep it. And as my adress already changed, I don't get more of it.
But in general, it had been american style full names or nickname-like ones, american style subjects about mortgages, cheap prizes, credits, applications, approvals, ... .I think that these could penetrate my providers spam-filters because they had a unusual form, compared to the usual spam that floats around here in europe.
If you like to track down yourself from where you get how much spam, there is a general approach:
Either get a set of email-adresses from public email services like gmx, web, msn or what else is easily usable from your area, and forward incoming mail to your common email account. Or, better, if you have a good provider or some webspace - even free one - you usually get at least one email-adress and a unlimited number of aliases (that is, virtual email-adresses that are all collected into your one real one).
Then use one distinct email-adress or alias for every forum, service or registration form you visit. Having your local spam filters well configured - or sorted them out by hand into a special folder - you can use some additional sorting filters provided by every email program, to put the spam into different subfolders, depending on the 'TO' field (the recipient adress).
This way you can quickly get an overview which one are the most 'spam-collecting' adresses and - if you remember it - where you used them.
maxim
