[Milsurplus] e-mail address harvesters of QTH.net

[Jerry K]

After researching reviews on anti-spam software, and after some so-so trial
experiences with pretty good but not great programs, last summer I
downloaded the free uncrippled trial version of an Outlook plugin called
Inboxer. It worked beyond my wildest expectations, which is to say it
actually worked as well as the reviews said it would. My spam has not
decreased, if anything spam volume is up. But I rarely ever see any of it,
unless it's occasionally in the "Inboxer Review" inbox when Inboxer can't
make up it's mind, which isn't often. I paid for the permanent version, and
it's probably the best $29 I ever spent on software. If you use Outlook
(won't work in Outlook Express) it's worth a try. After about three months
of "training" it's catch rate was up to at least 99%. The almost total
disappearance of spam in my inbox has been a blessed relief. Best part is
it's never auto-killed a single message yet that I wouldn't have wanted
killed. Not a bad track record.
Jerry W5KP

-----Original Message-----
From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of WA5CAB at cs.com
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:20 PM
To: arc5 at ix.netcom.com; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] e-mail address harvesters of QTH.net


I agree with Dave.  I get 20 or 25 spam (Spam and SPAM are registered
trademarks for ground pork) messages a day to an address that has been
continously
active for over four years.  And I'm not counting threads on lists I'm
subscribed to that go off on some silly tangent.  One half are get-rich
schemes from
Nigeria or other locations in black Africa.  One fourth are phishing schemes
for
eBay, PayPal or on-line banks.  Those are all recognizable out of hand, and
can be treated as wolves are.  The remaining one-fourth are from someone
wanting to sell something that I don't want to buy and get treated like any
other
junk mail, except that I don't have to haul them out front every other week
in
the green recycling bin.

Rant mode on.

Changing email addresses to avoid spam is an excercise in futility.  The
only
people who suffer are you and the people that you want to talk to.  In fact,
any email that comes in here with a subject of the type "new email address
to
avoid spam" gets treated as spam.  DELETE.  You can't avoid it.  Why make
the
rest of us follow you through endless iterations,

Rant mode off.