[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: OFF TOPIC! by golly..(spam)

[George Ramsower]

Gene,

 I've pretty much eliminated spam to my computer by making sure that all my 
email addresses are secure.
 I do this mostly by creating a new email addy for special events, such as 
the coco list. Hence the addy I use for this list.
 When some yahoo joins the group to steal that addy, it's a very isolated 
event. If this continues, I'll just unsubscribe, create a new email and 
subscribe again with that one... until it happens again.
 Another example is if I go to a website(as in dipwad.com) and have to sign 
up for something, I use an email addy such as dipwad at mywebsite.com and if 
they spam it, then I know who did it. I then reconfigure that addy to 
forward all the email back to them, usually webmaster at dipwad.com.
 The spams usually stop right away.
 This is more fun than "Spam Assassin" or any other method, takes less time 
and my inbox is clean.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
To: <ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Color Computer] [coco] OFF TOPIC! by golly..


> On Thursday 23 February 2006 03:44, George's Coco Address wrote:
>>I'm being ripped off by an internet SEO company.... I think.
>>
>>If anyone here can offer some help with discovery, please contact me
>> off list.
>>
>>If you are good, use....
>>
>>georgera
>>
>>and
>> at gvtc
>>
>>dot com
>>
>>I need help and I don't know how to deal with this EXPENSIVE  outfit.
>>.
>>George
>>
>>BTW... I've been spammed to my Coco Email address twice today. Bummer.
>> I suppose I'll have to un-subscribe and re-subscribe again with a new
>> one.
>>
>> Darn those spammers!
>>
> There is a collection of perl and python stuff called Spamassassin that
> you may be able to make work on that redmond based (spit, leaves a bad
> taste in my mouth to even come that close to sayng it) box of yours
> George.  I use it here on this linux box, and it catches and sorts to
> the JunqueMail folder, about 200 a day, with a very low false positive
> ratio, maybe one a day.  Its trainable so it will not recognize that
> same FP agan if you feed it spam (or ham) it missed and it will
> recognize it next time.  Bayes based for the most part although I also
> use rules_du_jour to keep the database up to date.
>
> It only takes me about 10 minutes a day for disposing of its output.
> The rest of the time, with anyplace from 500-2000 messages a day, is
> relatively painless.  But I am on too many lists too.
>
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
> People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
> 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
> stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
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> message by Gene Heskett are:
> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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