As I have written before, I go through periods of reporting spam to spamcop.net
<http://spamcop.net/>. It makes me feel better but it also seems to reduce the
spam from that issuer of the stuff.
Since we now know that Yahoo lost loads of our details to spammers 3 years ago,
it explains the load I had a couple of years ago on that email account.
Finally, since most of my accounts, including all my threeshoes.net
<http://threeshoes.net/> addresses, use the Google emailing system, I will
sometimes use my Gmail pages online to register spam. This is normally when
I’m getting persistent attention from a US retailer, such as JC Penney. I try
unsubscribing but if that fails I mark is as spam with Gmail and the flow stops.
Chris
> On 17 Dec 16, at 05:02, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 12/16/2016 4:00 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
>> Given all the spam I've been getting on my old personal address, I want to
>> protect my new personal address from bots and Web crawlers. My new Web host
>> does offer spam filtering, which I've enabled. Here are a couple of question
>> for those of you who are pros or talented amateurs at this sort of thing.
>> Feel free to tell me I'm being overly paranoid or overdoing it if I am.
>
> I don't think I fit your categories. I'm just a guy who uses mail providers
> with decent spam filters and the spam filter in Thunderbird. With Yahoo,
> Gmail and the ISP where I have web storage and some specialized email
> addresses, I get close to no spam.
>
> I do nothing special, just occasionally say a message is spam, which trains
> the filter.
>
> I had been getting a few from someone enterprising who changes sender
> address, subject and content with each try, in attempts to get me to click on
> an attachment. But they are few and transparent. Maybe they've gone away
> recently?
>
> The view from here is that you may be being overly paranoid.
>
> "Afloat in an unseen sea of spam, Moose traveled on, oblivious."
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