I too use Gmail for most inbound mail, despite appearance to the contrary,
but tend to register on websites using addresses on my hemy.org domain
which link directly and uniquely to the website on which I have registered.
Thus were I to register on www.abcdef.com, I would use abcdef@xxxxxxxx as
my email address. I can therefore see where the spam originates, and almost
all which is not captured by Gmail filters is from a handful of websites
which have either sold on my address, or have had it stolen thence. It's
usually easy to see which is which, but all end up as blocked senders.
Very little gets through to my primary address, which I use on this list.
That may tell us something about how we are perceived by spammers!
Spam is not something to be worried about IME, there are other nasties more
hazardous.
Piers
On 17 Dec 2016 7:05 a.m., "ChrisB" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As I have written before, I go through periods of reporting spam to
spamcop.net <http://spamcop.net/>. It makes me feel better but it also
seems to reduce the spam from that issuer of the stuff.
Since we now know that Yahoo lost loads of our details to spammers 3 years
ago, it explains the load I had a couple of years ago on that email account.
Finally, since most of my accounts, including all my threeshoes.net <
http://threeshoes.net/> addresses, use the Google emailing system, I will
sometimes use my Gmail pages online to register spam. This is normally
when I’m getting persistent attention from a US retailer, such as JC
Penney. I try unsubscribing but if that fails I mark is as spam with Gmail
and the flow stops.
Chris
> On 17 Dec 16, at 05:02, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 12/16/2016 4:00 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
>> Given all the spam I've been getting on my old personal address, I want
to protect my new personal address from bots and Web crawlers. My new Web
host does offer spam filtering, which I've enabled. Here are a couple of
question for those of you who are pros or talented amateurs at this sort of
thing. Feel free to tell me I'm being overly paranoid or overdoing it if I
am.
>
> I don't think I fit your categories. I'm just a guy who uses mail
providers with decent spam filters and the spam filter in Thunderbird. With
Yahoo, Gmail and the ISP where I have web storage and some specialized
email addresses, I get close to no spam.
>
> I do nothing special, just occasionally say a message is spam, which
trains the filter.
>
> I had been getting a few from someone enterprising who changes sender
address, subject and content with each try, in attempts to get me to click
on an attachment. But they are few and transparent. Maybe they've gone away
recently?
>
> The view from here is that you may be being overly paranoid.
>
> "Afloat in an unseen sea of spam, Moose traveled on, oblivious."
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