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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, NW wrote: > >> On my emails I get hardly any spam. (I don't have any filters set up for >> myself.) My wife gets lots. We have a web site and I use the email set >> up on there (IMAP). Recently I have persuaded the wife to move across to >> using emails on our web site to try to avoid her getting so much rubbish. > > Once the email address is on the spammers lists, that's it for life ... > >> Don't ask me why, but she has started getting rubbish emails already. I >> have set up some filters, which are already having to block over forty >> addresses! > > Is her PC running windoze? Is it possible it's infected with some trojan > that might be scraping email addresses and phoning home? > Yes, XP. > (And cue 4 yorkshiremen: 40 a day! Eee, I get 40,000 on a good day, etc.) > >> There must be an easier way. She has a fairly limited number of people >> from whom she wants emails. Perhaps it would be better to set up a white >> list of some sort. > >> Can anyone suggest some way to control this please? I can't just go on >> adding more and more filter addresses for her surely. >> >> Any ideas anyone please? > > Does your ISP offer any form of spam filtering? > > Realistically, (and sadly) I think that in todays Internet, it's just > not possible to use email and not get spam, so spam fitlers are > essential - somewhere along the line. > > It'll just take one slip to expose an email address, and bang, that's > it. Actually, I'm surprised yours hasn't been 'found' already by the use > of various name-dictionary attacks. You're probably 'safe' as your > domain is rather obscure - for now. > Well, that is the point. I have been using my domain for email for ages. I got her to move across to the same domain, just a different name before the @ sign and straight away she started getting rubbish. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html