Re: Great way to improve your Hebrew

maxine wrote:


That's why I give websites like that a web address that has an easy to
use spam trap. I use google for mail and usenet (bad, I know), and
their ads at least are relevant and unobtrusive.

Here's something that should work on most, if not all, mail servers:
If my email address is "don@xxxxxxxxxxx" I can add spam trap tags to the
address by using something like "don+SCJM@xxxxxxxxxxx" and that should
be routed to the same mailbox. The "+" and everything between it and
the "@" are supposed to be ignored by the mail server, but they show up
in the message you receive, so you know the source.

Depending upon your mail reader, then, you could route everything with
"+jpost" to a spam folder immediately.

Rambling somewhat off-topic, I read in the paper today or yesterday
about a new program that some websites are using. If you leave the
"store" without making a purchase, they send you e-mails to try and
lure you back. The article compared it to the store clerk that
follows you out to the sidewalk and keeps trying to sell you that
sweater you put back on the shelf.

That would not only require that they "read" your email address from
your browser but also (in many cases) initiate unlawful contact. That's
the sort of thing that gets sites blacklisted. If you've got a pointer
to that article or a list of stores doing so, I'd greatly appreciate
seeing it.

It's no cost to them to keep your e-mail on their list, and if they
send out a million e-mails and get one person to respond, they've made
a profit.

Personally, if a salessource gets pushy with me, I'm less likely to
use their store for my purchase. Ask me about the car salesmen I've
walked out on.


Sites that do this get blacklisted. Take a look at spamhaus.com, for
example - a blacklist that every major email provider now uses to filter
spam. I use it too, along with a series of other lists and a home-grown
filtering system. On a good day, my "real" email makes up 15% of what
comes in (on a bad day, that percentage goes down to about 7%). When
sites wind up on the blacklist, their mail gets rejected before I ever
see it. Much of the internet never sees their spam.

--
Don Levey, Framingam MA If knowledge is power,
(email address in header works) and power corrupts, then...
NOTE: Don't send mail to to salearn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
GnuPG public key: http://www.the-leveys.us:6080/keys/don-dsakey.asc

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