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Old November 27th, 2005, 12:55 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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Default Spam spam spam spam....

"riverman" wrote in
ups.com:

Well, my spam filters are pretty good, as almost all of those end
up in my 'bulk mail' or 'filtertest' folders, and can be deleted
with a click or two. I was just wondering if the spam curve falls
off at any time. I suppose I'll have to get a new return address
for roff in the short future, though, and see if I can dry up the
spam over time.


There's no sign of that happening soon. Our best hope is a
reengineering of the way mail is sent and there are at least 3 new
specifications under discussion. Once overcoming the common agreement
hurdle, deploying to the new the mail servers and Domain Naming will
take a very long time. And believe it or not, people do still buy
from spammers; I seem to remember that example a spammer gave that
10,000 spams give 20 bites which might get the spammer $100 (usually
a commission from another dubious scheme). With no overhead and no
real actual work this is fine for some, which is why most well known
email addresses get easily 150 a day. My address above is a
disposable yahoo address that points to a real once. I have been
using it a good 3 years, unmunged and it does not get that many spams
per day versus my old yahoo.com. So the advice earlier in this thread
is good. Unfortunately Yahoo charge for the ability to create a
disposable email addy. Not sure of free services.