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report spam Anders T=F8rneskog Reporting spam is mostly a waste of time. It will stop a few individuals but will have little effect on the professional spammers who send the bulk of spam that I receive. There are server owners all over the world who will host just about anything without question. Many of the big professionals own many domain names as well as servers, and shift from one to another as they get locked out by ISPs. The laws concerning spam are absent or not enforced in many countries. What you need is a few disposable eMail addresses that can be closed everytime spam becomes too great. Use one for posts, one for buying online, etc. Then when spam becomes a problem on one, just close it and open a new one. Since I have two domains with domain mail, I am in complete control. I can create any address I want of the form create an eMail address or delete it on the server. You can have up to hundreds of addresses, if need be. Now I have an eMail account at Yahoo, which has very good filters. I am set up so that I can go to Yahoo mail and view and erase all of the eMail received on the server using pop mail. For those who do not have a domain, Yahoo mail, and likely others, have disposable eMail addresses, if you wish. You set up a parent address that you do not use on the web. Then you create sub addresses or delete them at will. Thus your parent address is protected from spam received from the sub addresses. At the moment I use my spamtrap1 address for Usenet with the name cwdjrxyz. When spamtrap1 attracts too much spam, it may become spampot. However the cwdjrxyz will remain the same so that others will know who I am.
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