I could not agree with Lee more. I get a lot of antenna questions.
Typing out a thoughtful answer only to have it bounce back since the
person who asked for help wont accept my reply is beyond irritating.
I don't protect my email address at all, have had the same address for
over 10 years and get very little spam. I'm not completely sure why.
I think Comcast blocks a lot of it, and my current email client -
Thunderbird - catches more...
73
Hal N4GG
n 4/23/2013 7:11 AM, Lee Hiers wrote:
>
> Another problem with Spamarrest and similar "services" is that some of
> us refuse to deal with the BS. Oftentimes I will respond with an
> answer to a question to help a poster in a group and am greeted by a
> confirmation email from such a "service". At that point, the domain
> (often Spamarrest) gets reported for spam to Gmail. I'm not going
> through extra steps when I'm already going out of my way to help someone.
>
> I'm sure there are others who feel the same as I do about this. I
> can't tell you how many times I've had people opt-in to a mailing list
> and at the next distribution I receive a BS confirmation email. Those
> folks get immediately unsubscribed.
>
> So, use one of those "services" if you wish, but realize it isn't
> perfect.
>
> I don't do anything in particular to control/hide my email address,
> other than to use different email addresses for different situations.
> At least I can often tell who is selling my email address. The other
> thing I do is make regular reports to the FTC of emails I have
> received in violation of the CanSpam act....I doubt it does any good,
> other than give me a warm fuzzy feeling. In any event, I find the
> amount of spam I receive to be quite manageable.
>
> 73 de Lee, AA4GA
>
>
>
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