Was this unusually high for you, or just a time you decided to count them? (It's probably the "mailto" links on your site...)

Posted by: Frank on September 4, 2003 09:14 PM

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...unusually high. And it keeps getting worse.

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on September 4, 2003 09:56 PM

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SPAM is just so annoying. I use Cloudmark and this has really helped, but there is still enough SPAM for me to notice daily. What are the solutions?

Posted by: Daniel Szuc on September 5, 2003 07:08 AM

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Question: Could you live without e-mail?

Perhaps we could communicate in shared spaces, in something like a discussion site or web log type of thing?

Posted by: Mac on September 5, 2003 10:25 AM

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It seems to me that we already have a web log type of thing :).

Posted by: Francis Wu on September 5, 2003 12:13 PM

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1) Stop hyperlinking your email address on your web site. Replace with contact form instead. It's going to tough finding all your previous site entries with your address in it, so this is probably a lost cause.

Alternatively: Stop using the john at webword.com addresss, starting 2 weeks from now. Send mail to all your known contacts, telling them about the change. Change it to say mail at webword dot com instead. If you terminate your other account, all mail to the john address will bounce.

2) Start controlling your spam. I know you use Outlook Express. Download SAProxy for free, which is the client-side version of SpamAssasin. URL: http://saproxy.bloomba.com/

This will tag all recognised spam which you can automatically filter into a "Spam Trap" folder like I do. Once every 2-3 days, review the folder to see if legitimate mail has been caught.

Do it, John. Do it now. 4+ years of leaving your address linked from your site has taken its toll.

Posted by: webguru@nospam.vsnl.net on September 5, 2003 03:09 PM

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Damn Google AutoFill screwed up. That was my comment, of course.

Posted by: MadMan on September 5, 2003 03:12 PM

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Posted by eric_at_shepard_dot_com :)

Good & practical article on dealing with spam at Good Experience ...

"This spam solution, and many other e-mail management tips, are in my
free report, "Managing Incoming E-mail: What Every User Needs to
Know." (For those of you who read it last year, I've just updated it
with new pointers to recent articles on spam.)"

http://www.goodexperience.com/reports/e-mail/

Posted by: Eric P on September 7, 2003 01:06 AM

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One of my favorites: http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml

Posted by: nospam on September 9, 2003 08:43 PM

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