[SECC] question on email - spamarrest

[Hal Kennedy]

I could not agree with Lee  more.  I get a lot of antenna questions.  
Typing out a thoughtful answer only to have it bounce back since the 
person who asked for help wont accept my reply is beyond irritating.

I don't protect my email address at all, have had the same address for 
over 10 years and get very little spam.  I'm not completely sure why.   
I think Comcast blocks a lot of it, and my current email client -  
Thunderbird - catches more...
73
Hal N4GG


n 4/23/2013 7:11 AM, Lee Hiers wrote:
>
> Another problem with Spamarrest and similar "services" is that some of 
> us refuse to deal with the BS. Oftentimes I will respond with an 
> answer to a question to help a poster in a group and am greeted by a 
> confirmation email from such a "service". At that point, the domain 
> (often Spamarrest) gets reported for spam to Gmail. I'm not going 
> through extra steps when I'm already going out of my way to help someone.
>
> I'm sure there are others who feel the same as I do about this.  I 
> can't tell you how many times I've had people opt-in to a mailing list 
> and at the next distribution I receive a BS confirmation email.  Those 
> folks get immediately unsubscribed.
>
> So, use one of those "services" if you wish, but realize it isn't 
> perfect.
>
> I don't do anything in particular to control/hide my email address, 
> other than to use different email addresses for different situations.  
> At least I can often tell who is selling my email address. The other 
> thing I do is make regular reports to the FTC of emails I have 
> received in violation of the CanSpam act....I doubt it does any good, 
> other than give me a warm fuzzy feeling.  In any event, I find the 
> amount of spam I receive to be quite manageable.
>
> 73 de Lee, AA4GA
>
>
>
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