I HATE SPAM

Check this out, I recently (well 1 year ago) purchased Earthlink DSL. The email address I recieved I never used as I was still paying out a contract with Prodigy. So I continued to use that email, which is spammed also. Anywayz, my ??????@earthlink.net email was never used, so finally the contract is coming to an end. Well time to setup outlook express to recieve email from Earthlink Pop Server. Well once set up I did the most dangerous thing I can ever do, I hit Send/Recieve, and I was alll excited though cause I have 600+ People contacting me, I am feeling LIKE VIP. MOTHERFUCKERS. Anyway it was spam spam spam and more spam. Why did my email address get published? Did earthlink do it? I now have Ad-Adware to check my system, for tracking system put in the registry. Hopefully this will eradicate some spam. Motherfuckers.

Tis all,

Your Friend

"Did Earthlink do it?"

Oh no, these providers NEVER sell email lists.

FACT: If you have a mailbox, and you give the address to someone, one thing, for sure, will happen: You will, in time, start to get spam; and, eventually, you'll get so much of it that you're forced to take action.

If you have a "mostly not published" email address, I suggest using a service like SpamGourmet (http://www.spamgourmet.com/) to give you disposable one-time or two-time or x-time useage email addresses.

If I want to shop once at a cheesy online retailer and I know they're going to whore out my address?

I give them onlineretailer.4.palimax@spamgourmet.com and the first four emails they send to that address get to me. #5 gets eaten by the gourmet. Simple to abuse, you say? Well, Palimax, I'll just subscribe screwmax.9999.palimax@spamgourmet.com to some porno mailing lists. Well, bucko, you're going to be in for a treat when I tell you that I have a pre-defined "secret" list of words that I accept in front of the .number portion of my address, and that if I start getting mail that I don't like, I just change my secret word, or add a word to my banned list. All the while, my REAL email address remains a quasi-secret.

Oh, spamgourmet is free, fast, and stable.

wow. i've never heard of that. it's a good idea though. as long as that company doesn't in turn hand out your private address too!!!

i mostly live off of hotmail, as i barely give out my work email address to ANYONE... but what i do is use an old address when i need to sign up for something have a few filters set on it so that jumk mail gets deleted occasionally so as not to flood the inbox, and when i sign up for something, check the account, respond as necessary, and leave alone until needed. i have the newer address just for friends and family to use, basically. works so far. the old address (maaany many many years old by now) collects pages and pages of junk mail, but most of it gets deleted before i even see it.

There is a secondary service earthlink uses to filter your email. The best part is you the user get to set up how it works. Check the welcome package and it will explain how to set it up. I was getting over 100 emails a day to my other addresses that I didn't even know I had until I set up my filter.

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