OT: E-mail Address Change

[Jim Thompson]

While spamcop is quite successful at sorting spam so that I don't see
them in my direct Inbox, I still have to examine around 10-15 items a
day to screen for possible false positives.

Therefore I am declaring that any E-mail address for me that is now in
circulation will, in 30 days, go directly to /dev/null/ (in other
words the great black hole in the sky

In the future, to E-mail me, go to my website to determine the
currently accepted address.

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Joerg]

Hi Jim,

Now I know why many hosting companies offer dozens of email addresses with
their web hosting packages. Seems like email addresses are like batteries,
when they wear out you have to chuck them. Maybe letting those addresses
chill off for a couple years will work, too.

Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:43:20 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

Hi Jim,

Now I know why many hosting companies offer dozens of email addresses with
their web hosting packages. Seems like email addresses are like batteries,
when they wear out you have to chuck them. Maybe letting those addresses
chill off for a couple years will work, too.

Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com

Hi Joerg,

I'm gradually changing over so that all my accounts, vendors, credit
cards, banks, MIT committees, mailing lists, family, friends, etc.,
all have a specific address to send E-mail to me.

That way I can track and cut-off spam at my E-mail forwarding site,
and never see or have to process it.

I currently have 12 allowed addresses and 30 instant-to-trash.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Blair P. Houghton]

Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

Maybe letting those addresses
chill off for a couple years will work, too.

Nope. I have a couple of old accounts that I only log into
to delete the spam, which never seems to either increase
or decrease.

--Blair
"CDs last for decades."

 

[John S. Dyson]

In article <vDZjc.3354741$iA2.394461@news.easynews.com>,
Blair P. Houghton <b@p.h> writes:

Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:
Maybe letting those addresses
chill off for a couple years will work, too.

Nope. I have a couple of old accounts that I only log into
to delete the spam, which never seems to either increase
or decrease.

I have several 'secret' email accounts whose names aren't

easily guessable. The public email account isn't really
normally read. If job search or something like that, I
create special email accounts for the project.

A nice bonus of having ones own servers is that email accounts
can be created so as to track the distribution.

John

 

[Kevin McMurtrie]

In article <kivv8099rp4lf3isqndg90rjapdoa588q1@4ax.com>,
Jim Thompson <thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

While spamcop is quite successful at sorting spam so that I don't see
them in my direct Inbox, I still have to examine around 10-15 items a
day to screen for possible false positives.

Therefore I am declaring that any E-mail address for me that is now in
circulation will, in 30 days, go directly to /dev/null/ (in other
words the great black hole in the sky

In the future, to E-mail me, go to my website to determine the
currently accepted address.

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

Some ISPs now offer IP address filtering during the SMTP transaction.
I've found it to be extremely effective. There aren't as many sources
of spam as you'd think. My blacklist doesn't need much maintenance.

 

[robin.pain@tesco.net]

Jim Thompson <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message news:<kivv8099rp4lf3isqndg90rjapdoa588q1@4ax.com>...

While spamcop is quite successful at sorting spam so that I don't see
them in my direct Inbox, I still have to examine around 10-15 items a
day to screen for possible false positives.

This is rather good at telling the difference:-

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Cheers
Robin

 

[Joerg]

Hi John,

You can also do that without having to run your own server. Many
hosting providers offer dozens of email accounts at no additional
cost. You can then create and delet them online. I don't know what
the rules are but if a provider, say, allows 50 emails and doesn't
count deleted ones against that your choices are pretty unlimited.

Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com

 

[Joerg]

Hi Blair,

Regarding your tag line: We have the bible narrated on CD and
after a few months the CD player in my car refused two of the
CDs. When I looked closely they have turned blue across 1/3 of
their surface. Maybe internal delamination. So CDs may not always
live for decades...

Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com

 

In sci.electronics.misc Blair P. Houghton <b@p.h> wrote:
| Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:
|>Maybe letting those addresses
|>chill off for a couple years will work, too.
|
| Nope. I have a couple of old accounts that I only log into
| to delete the spam, which never seems to either increase
| or decrease.

In your case, because they are deliverable, it may be that spammers
decide to keep sending because of that. However, I have used email
addresses in subdomains that got spammed a long time agin, then I
decommissioned the machine with that hostname, and two years later
built a new machine and gave it the same name. It got spam within
an hour.

Spammers never seem to give up even if the address is undeliverable
for two years.

--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ |
| (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

In sci.electronics.misc Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtri@dslextreme.com> wrote:
| In article <kivv8099rp4lf3isqndg90rjapdoa588q1@4ax.com>,
| Jim Thompson <thegreatone@example.com> wrote:
|
|> While spamcop is quite successful at sorting spam so that I don't see
|> them in my direct Inbox, I still have to examine around 10-15 items a
|> day to screen for possible false positives.
|>
|> Therefore I am declaring that any E-mail address for me that is now in
|> circulation will, in 30 days, go directly to /dev/null/ (in other
|> words the great black hole in the sky
|>
|> In the future, to E-mail me, go to my website to determine the
|> currently accepted address.
|>
|> Thanks!
|>
|> ...Jim Thompson
|
| Some ISPs now offer IP address filtering during the SMTP transaction.
| I've found it to be extremely effective. There aren't as many sources
| of spam as you'd think. My blacklist doesn't need much maintenance.

The (in)famous SPEWS, which is known to block whole ISPs just for having
a spammer as a customer, really only blocks less than 1 percent of the
IPv4 address space. So either there is not much blocked, or there are
plenty of unused addresses.

--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ |
| (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

[John S. Dyson]

In article <40914329.1BCFE383@removethispacbell.net>,
Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes:

Hi John,

You can also do that without having to run your own server. Many
hosting providers offer dozens of email accounts at no additional
cost. You can then create and delet them online. I don't know what
the rules are but if a provider, say, allows 50 emails and doesn't
count deleted ones against that your choices are pretty unlimited.

Cool... I didn't know that!!!

John

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Jim Thompson wrote:

While spamcop is quite successful at sorting spam so that I don't see
them in my direct Inbox, I still have to examine around 10-15 items a
day to screen for possible false positives.

Therefore I am declaring that any E-mail address for me that is now in
circulation will, in 30 days, go directly to /dev/null/ (in other
words the great black hole in the sky

In the future, to E-mail me, go to my website to determine the
currently accepted address.

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

Smart move Jim to have only images pointing to adresses.
I had a dozend emails listed on my site. They're being spammed.
After switching these I also give them a fews weeks and direct
them to the bin henceforth.
I'm also considering to switch the adress(s) every there and then.

Rene
--
Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com
& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net

 

[Richard Henry]

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message
news:40914426.89C69458@removethispacbell.net...

Hi Blair,

Regarding your tag line: We have the bible narrated on CD and
after a few months the CD player in my car refused two of the
CDs. When I looked closely they have turned blue across 1/3 of
their surface. Maybe internal delamination. So CDs may not always
live for decades...

A friend of a friend sailing among the South Pacific islands notices that
some of their CDs had developed woodworm-hole patterns beetween the layers.

They blamed a mutant polyester mite.

 

[Richard Henry]

<phil-news-nospam@ipal.net> wrote in message
news:c6rise028ek@news2.newsguy.com...

In sci.electronics.misc Blair P. Houghton <b@p.h> wrote:
| Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:
|>Maybe letting those addresses
|>chill off for a couple years will work, too.
|
| Nope. I have a couple of old accounts that I only log into
| to delete the spam, which never seems to either increase
| or decrease.

In your case, because they are deliverable, it may be that spammers
decide to keep sending because of that. However, I have used email
addresses in subdomains that got spammed a long time agin, then I
decommissioned the machine with that hostname, and two years later
built a new machine and gave it the same name. It got spam within
an hour.

Spammers never seem to give up even if the address is undeliverable
for two years.

I theorize that there is collusion with some (at least) of the ISPs.

A while back, I opened an MSN Hotmail account. Before I could use it, or
tell anyone about it, I was getting dozens of spam emails a day. After I
posted a comment similar to this in a newsgroup (maybe this one) the spam
dropped almost to nothing for a few weeks. But it's back. I just reviewed
the 33 unread messages in that account today, and only one of them had any
value - a message from MSN.

Some of it seems senseless. Fo instance, if someone is filtering all
messages with the word "viagra" in the subject, is he likely to repsond to a
message that has the word "via.gra" instead?

And there were a couple of these:

"If you received this email then whatever s.p.a.m filter your using is not
working properly."

Really.

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:54:05 -0700, "Richard Henry" <rphenry@home.com>
wrote:

phil-news-nospam@ipal.net> wrote in message
news:c6rise028ek@news2.newsguy.com...
In sci.electronics.misc Blair P. Houghton <b@p.h> wrote:
| Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:
|>Maybe letting those addresses
|>chill off for a couple years will work, too.
|
| Nope. I have a couple of old accounts that I only log into
| to delete the spam, which never seems to either increase
| or decrease.

In your case, because they are deliverable, it may be that spammers
decide to keep sending because of that. However, I have used email
addresses in subdomains that got spammed a long time agin, then I
decommissioned the machine with that hostname, and two years later
built a new machine and gave it the same name. It got spam within
an hour.

Spammers never seem to give up even if the address is undeliverable
for two years.

Spammers don't see the bounce notices because everything in the spam
is falsified except for the URL they want you to go to.

I theorize that there is collusion with some (at least) of the ISPs.

A while back, I opened an MSN Hotmail account. Before I could use it, or
tell anyone about it, I was getting dozens of spam emails a day. After I
posted a comment similar to this in a newsgroup (maybe this one) the spam
dropped almost to nothing for a few weeks. But it's back. I just reviewed
the 33 unread messages in that account today, and only one of them had any
value - a message from MSN.

There are 2911 spam messages in my "legitimate" cox.net account... an
E-mail address that I have never used! I now only use cox.net for
SMTP and POP from spamcop.net

Some of it seems senseless. Fo instance, if someone is filtering all
messages with the word "viagra" in the subject, is he likely to repsond to a
message that has the word "via.gra" instead?

That's why I use spamcop.net as a forwarding path.

And there were a couple of these:

"If you received this email then whatever s.p.a.m filter your using is not
working properly."

Really.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Marc 182]

In article <MHekc.2984$fE.574@fed1read02>, rphenry@home.com says...

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message
news:40914426.89C69458@removethispacbell.net...
Hi Blair,

Regarding your tag line: We have the bible narrated on CD and
after a few months the CD player in my car refused two of the
CDs. When I looked closely they have turned blue across 1/3 of
their surface. Maybe internal delamination. So CDs may not always
live for decades...

A friend of a friend sailing among the South Pacific islands notices that
some of their CDs had developed woodworm-hole patterns beetween the layers.

They blamed a mutant polyester mite.

The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) did a study of
accelerated aging of various cd media (CD-R, -RW, etc). The CD-Rs did
the best, with archival lifetimes of upto 100-200 years if treated well.
Commercial CDs did much worse, their aluminum layer is subject to
breakdown from oxy through cracks or scratches, say 20-100 years. CD-
RW did the worst at 25 years tops. Better burn copies of those important
disks.

See: http://www.gcn.com/23_5/news/25166-1.html

Marc

 

[Mjolinor]

"Richard Henry" <rphenry@home.com> wrote in message
news:MHekc.2984$fE.574@fed1read02...

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message
news:40914426.89C69458@removethispacbell.net...
Hi Blair,

Regarding your tag line: We have the bible narrated on CD and
after a few months the CD player in my car refused two of the
CDs. When I looked closely they have turned blue across 1/3 of
their surface. Maybe internal delamination. So CDs may not always
live for decades...

A friend of a friend sailing among the South Pacific islands notices that
some of their CDs had developed woodworm-hole patterns beetween the
layers.

They blamed a mutant polyester mite.

I've been doing some reading about PS2s and it appears to me that Sony
(totally against chipping of these devices) have weakened the windings on
the focus coil of the laser so that if you use scratched or writeable cds in
them the winding goes short because it has to work harder and isn't up to
the job.

Writeable optical media really are crap, they dont work in a lot of devices
and they fade so that you can't now use them for data backup, they don't
last long enough.

 

[Blair P. Houghton]

Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

Regarding your tag line: We have the bible narrated on CD and
after a few months the CD player in my car refused two of the
CDs. When I looked closely they have turned blue across 1/3 of
their surface. Maybe internal delamination. So CDs may not always
live for decades...

No, it's because God doesn't love you.

--Blair
"You have to consider the highest
probability first."

 

[Blair P. Houghton]

Mjolinor <mjolinor@hotmail.com> wrote:

Writeable optical media really are crap, they dont work in a lot of devices
and they fade so that you can't now use them for data backup, they don't
last long enough.

The other day I had some to destroy, so I tossed them in
the microwave (in a stack in a zip-lock bag; otherwise
the stink of smoking Lexan stays in the nuker for days).

The recordable ones take a moment longer to heat and end up
with bigger cracks.

--Blair
"Just so's you know."