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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
I dont run antispam software, use ntl email addys and yet dont get any spam, (yet), and havent done so for a number of months. Incredible but true.
How you might ask? Simply choose email addys that aren't readily guessable by the spammers, who have programs that write all sorts of combinations of likely addys. The spammers don't care cost the cost of the email is nothing, and if they get blocked they'll just find another relay to work through. They might know if the email bounces back to them as undeliverable, but if it doesn't bounce they know they have a live one, and keep firing the stuff at you.
So I dont use the firstname.surname or intialsurname type combinations. And I dont use my forum name as an addy either! I use names easily remembered by me, but with a few numbers thrown in. So my addy could have become firstname-###-surname@ (where # is a number).
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Try setting one up now!! We had 2 new emails set up one the primary one has 100+ porn spam and only 1 email a month that has out addy on and thats the SACM bill.. Its never been registered with any website apart from screwfix direct but the spam was already coming before the sign up.. the email is simply hubbys name.. I tried to make a new one and they don't allow me to choose an email they give you a choice of 2 or 3 and all easy for spam......
their proxies are a mine field for spam using the open relays.. when the proxies was off we had less...... now they are back on we are over 100 a day its sick.....