[Elecraft] Re: Spam alert

Fri May 2 06:03:01 2003

> I've been trying Mailwasher
> http://www.firetrust.com/

The free version of Mailwasher is at http://www.mailwasher.net - a 
small donation is recommended. Mailwasher Pro which has more 
functions is around $30. I have been using the free version for a few 
weeks and it is very useful, although I am dubious whether its 
'Bounce' function really helps to reduce spam. The big advantage is 
you can delete big spam mails before downloading.

I also subscribe to uk-contest and sd-user which are on the 
contesting.com lists. I am not sure whether this uses the same 
software but Google shows hits of my email addresses in its archives 
as well as Elecraft. I used to have three of my email addresses 
mentioned in my mails (in the header and my signature) and was 
getting simultaneous spam to all these addresses, perhaps proof that 
the bots had found them in archive emails somewhere. I have now 
changed my signature so only one email address appears. mailto links 
on my website use javascript encoding but it is a losing battle to 
get rid of other places they appear.

The CDT report mentioned 
(http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml) is 
interesting reading but does not cover this aspect of spamming from 
email archives.

73 Dave G3YMC

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http://www.dsergeant.btinternet.co.uk