[TowerTalk] Yahoo and Spam! Was: New Ham Automation reflector

[Roger K8RI on Tower]

I know this is drifting OT, but about 20 to 30% of the spam I receive is 
addressed to the address I use here on Tower Talk. I use this address for no 
other purpose than the reflector and to respond to those using the address 
for direct responses.  Those people already have the address anyway.

Other addresses probably receive spam mostly for the same reason. Infected 
conputers and friends sending/forwarding jokes via HTML e-mail even though I 
use text only.

Even with published addresses on web sites I *normally* receive well less 
than 10 a day (5 average) out of a 100 or so legit messages.

>I get very little Spam addressed to the email addresses I use for Yahoo
> groups (but they are not Yahoo email addresses). By far the majority of
> Spam I get comes to an email address I was silly enough to use on Usenet
> for a while.

I used a legit return address on the news groups for years. I used the same 
address from 96 until early 2004.  Spam remained low as it is now, but one 
day my mail wasn't coming up. I looked and it was downloading, but had 480 
messages to go.  I went in, dumped the address on the server which dumped 
all that mail spam and legit.  Recently I reactivated that address and the 
first day it received on the order of 20 messages.  I flushed it again.  I'm 
guessing that someone signed me up for every mailing list they could find, 
or a new CD hit the market the day before.

>
> Both on Yahoo groups and on the various email lists to which I subscribe
> I probably get more tedious messages griping about allegedly off-topic
> posts than actual Spam! ;-)
>
I even get spam to the address I use for Spam-L on occasion.<:-))
> 73

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com

>
> Alan NV8A
>
>
> On 04/25/05 05:15 pm Jim Rhodes tossed the following ingredients into
> the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:
>
>> Seems like every time I sign up for anything on yahoo, I start getting 
>> tons
>> of obnoxious spam that has to be filtered out. So I don't go there 
>> anymore.
>
>>>>>At the risk of being off-topic again, I wanted to advise that I have 
>>>>>just
>>>>>set up such a group on yahoogroups.com.  The title is Ham Station
>>>>>Automation, and the e-mail address is hamautomation at yahoogroups.com. 
>>>>>To
>>>>>quote from the group's charter:
>>>>
>>>>There is already a "Remotebase" reflector on qth.net.  It seems like
>>>>it would be better to use this list rather than starting a splinter
>>>>group on Yahoo, unless there is some advantage to Yahoo Groups that
>>>>is worth looking at advertising.
>
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