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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 11, 2007 - 05:21pm PT
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NOT!
The stuff in the can is bad. The stuff in my email IN box makes me want to go postal.
I'm considering signing up for:
http://www.spamarrest.com
Does anyone else have a solution that actually works?
Recently I opened a gmail account and I now forward my doug at lafarge dot EN EE TEE to it. IT filtered out about 4000 pieces of spam in the last two weeks. Problem was it caught a few emails from you folks requesting my address for sushi funds and things like that.
BLECH!
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malabarista
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Aug 11, 2007 - 05:31pm PT
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Sorry Nature, I deleted it. I couldn't bear to repost it. :-)
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J. Werlin
climber
Cedaredge
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Aug 11, 2007 - 09:12pm PT
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I use a yahoo address for internet purchases, etc. and a gmail for personal and business. Seems to keep my gmail account pretty clean.
Edit: the above is less than even a band-aid solution.
In the tip department, this one may be more useful. You spoke of your growing need for a sushi trailer in another post. These slick white cargo haulers are way pricey and built like sh*t. You could about punch a hole in the side of one of those tinfoil rigs. I've got a couple old (late sixty-early seventies) horse trailers that I use for my construction stuff. Took them to a welder who cut out the steel divider and used the same material to close in the trailer, added a hasp, built some shelves. . . Bomber rigs.
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 11, 2007 - 09:49pm PT
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I better delete mine too. I might look like I'm losing it.
One way i've tried to combat spam is I create multiple alias email address in my /etc/mail/virtualusers file. For supertopo I use to have rock@holdit.com which just forwaded to my doug@ account. I started getting spam to the rock address which means spammers got it from supertopo (it's the only place it is ever used). The spammers now get a response generated by my mail server that tells them what I think of them. I created st@laf.... and updated my account. I've done this with about 10 other aliases but none of those get spam.
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john hansen
climber
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Aug 11, 2007 - 11:41pm PT
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Nature, you ever had Spam musubi,, real Hawaiian style.
Not sure if it qualifies as sushi..
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2007 - 12:01am PT
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Nope. I don't eat the other white meet. If it's served with sushi rice it qualifies as sushi.
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monolith
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Aug 12, 2007 - 02:15am PT
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Gmail does a great job blocking spam.
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2007 - 02:19am PT
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I agree - in the last month it's taken out over 10000 pieces of spam. Problem is it took out a dozen or so piece of email that should never have been filter as spam that I consider rather important pieces of email. If it was perfect it wouldn't be 10000:12 it'd be 10000:0 (which is asking for a lot but still worth asking for, no?).
As crimpie might say: m'eh!
Instead of fighing bullsheet wars maybe the gov't should be serving us and fighting spam... Oh the pipe dream!
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