I, too, am in agreement with Lee, Hal and the others that have replied. I have been the email administrator at my current (and previous) jobs. The commercial anti-spam gateways I have used are amazing (Barracuda being one). On the personal side, I have a pair of "junk" email accounts that I use for anything that requires an email address to sign up. I use those accounts to sign up and then pretty much ignore the junk that comes from that vendor. Periodically, I go in and clean those accounts out. I have used 3 or 4 of the free email services out there and have found that Gmail is the best (for me...your mileage may vary) at reducing spam. I honestly can't remember the last time I got any spam in my inbox and very rarely do I see anything in my spam folder. I have only had to allow one or two addresses in the last 3 years since I started using Gmail.

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Hal Kennedy <halken@comcast.net> wrote:

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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