Hi Richard:

I don't want to attract any more spam. But am trying an experiment with
MailWasher. My ISP (Telus) has a very effective spam filter, and very
little gets through, but I turned it off as I wanted to see if bouncing spam
would stop it. I have been going now for three months and do not see much
change. Averaging about 33 spam messages a day. I plan to run the
experiment till the end of the year or so.

What bothers me is how much of this junk eats bandwidth up, and would like
to find a way to eliminate it. I have known many people who end up getting
so much spam that they dump their address and get a new one. I was
wondering if these spammers continue to send spam for ever to non-existent
addresses.

Had an e-mail from a local ham who says he was very successful with
MailWasher, so will give him a call and see if I am doing something wrong.

73, Frank Meredith
(VE6CB)


"Richard Clark" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:39:15 GMT, "Knarf"
wrote:
Just checking to see if I can post with a "Munged" e-mail address to
minimize spam. Also an alias, with my name backwards, is supposed to cut
down on the probability of such junk.

Hi Frank,

This is dreaming in technicolor and surround-sound. I post with my
full name and address in the clear and as a consequence never "see" as
much as one spam in a month. Certainly my filters kill up to 10 a
day, but as I said, I don't "see" them - takes all of two or three
seconds to automagically wipe them out on start up or take them out
like a bug-zapper when they straggle in.

I get far more spam on my business account with my address registered
with government agencies. I have to add one or two new spammers to my
kill file there each week and that currently outnumbers my killfile
here 7:1. The spam that I do see here isn't even addressed to me.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC