• Eric Poggel <dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net> Dec 21 2010
• "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> Dec 21 2010
• "Manfred_Nowak" <svv1999 hotmail.com> Dec 21 2010
• "Manfred_Nowak" <svv1999 hotmail.com> Dec 21 2010
• "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> Dec 21 2010
• "Simen kjaeraas" <simen.kjaras gmail.com> Dec 21 2010
• Eric Poggel <dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net> Dec 21 2010
• Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> Dec 21 2010
• "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> Dec 21 2010

Eric Poggel <dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net> writes:

I've created this email address (dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net) exclusively for 
posting to this newsgroup, and now it's getting spam.  I assume it's 
from a web-scraper that has harvested the email addresses.  Does anyone 
have any tricks or can anything be done to help this situation?

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:33:46 -0500, Eric Poggel <dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net>  
wrote:

 I've created this email address (dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net) exclusively for  
 posting to this newsgroup, and now it's getting spam.  I assume it's  
 from a web-scraper that has harvested the email addresses.  Does anyone  
 have any tricks or can anything be done to help this situation?


Use a spam filter?  I rarely see spam in my yahoo mail account, and the  
amount I do get is manageable.

Many people don't use a valid email address to avoid spam.  There is no  
requirement to use a valid email address.

-Steve

"Manfred_Nowak" <svv1999 hotmail.com> writes:

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 Many people don't use a valid email address to avoid spam.


to email handling.

 There is no requirement to use a valid email address.



-manfred

"Manfred_Nowak" <svv1999 hotmail.com> writes:

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 no offense



-manfred

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:12:41 -0500, Manfred_Nowak <svv1999 hotmail.com>  
wrote:

 Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 Many people don't use a valid email address to avoid spam.


 to email handling.


Many = more than a few.

 There is no requirement to use a valid email address.




I meant the requirement of the server.

calm down a bit, I meant no offense.

-Steve

"Simen kjaeraas" <simen.kjaras gmail.com> writes:

Eric Poggel <dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net> wrote:

 I've created this email address (dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net) exclusively for  
 posting to this newsgroup, and now it's getting spam.  I assume it's  
 from a web-scraper that has harvested the email addresses.  Does anyone  
 have any tricks or can anything be done to help this situation?


What Steve said. Either use a fake or throwaway account, or use a good spam
filter. Over 5 years, I've had a grand total of three spam mails get
through the gmail filter, and not a single false positive.

-- 
Simen

Eric Poggel <dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net> writes:

On 12/21/2010 11:46 AM, Simen kjaeraas wrote:
 Eric Poggel <dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net> wrote:

 I've created this email address (dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net) exclusively
 for posting to this newsgroup, and now it's getting spam. I assume
 it's from a web-scraper that has harvested the email addresses. Does
 anyone have any tricks or can anything be done to help this situation?


 What Steve said. Either use a fake or throwaway account, or use a good spam
 filter. Over 5 years, I've had a grand total of three spam mails get
 through the gmail filter, and not a single false positive.


I get several spams from my gmail account every week.

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

On 12/21/10, Simen kjaeraas <simen.kjaras gmail.com> wrote:
 What Steve said. Either use a fake or throwaway account, or use a good spam
 filter. Over 5 years, I've had a grand total of three spam mails get
 through the gmail filter, and not a single false positive.


Yeah, gmail is pretty awesome when it comes to spam filters (YMMV). I
still have an old hotmail account which I never use, but I check it
once in a while and it's always *loaded* with spam in the inbox.

"Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:

"Eric Poggel" <dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net> wrote in message 
news:ieql0o$30at$1 digitalmars.com...
 I've created this email address (dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net) exclusively for 
 posting to this newsgroup, and now it's getting spam.  I assume it's from 
 a web-scraper that has harvested the email addresses.  Does anyone have 
 any tricks or can anything be done to help this situation?


There's a ton of NG-viewing webpages out there and all is takes is for one 
of them to decide to (or accidentally) show email addresses, or for one 
spambot developer to decide to scan NGs directly. That's why I've always 
just used a a.a on the NG. Someone wants to email me, no prob, they can ask 
on the NG, and I'll provide a sanitized version.

I never use spam filters because I've don't trust them - I've never found 
one (including gmail) that didn't give me an unacceptable amount of both 
false positives and false negatives. (And I know I get really annoyed when 
legitimate messages I send get blocked by overzealous filters.)