I use gmail now and get zero spam. The only unsolicited mail I get is from
people I've done business with. I promptly unsubscribe and it goes away. Except
L. L. Bean. They are relentless.
We still have the old Time Warner address, but I have unhooked it from mail
programs, and don't bother to check it on the browser. The last time I did, it
was nothing but crap.
Now the phone is a different story. From time to time I get spam texts with
links. I delete and block. Same with robo-calls. Delete and block. Since the
election they have dropped to none.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
> On Dec 17, 2016, at 12:02 AM, 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."
>
> Quotable Moose
>
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