[SC-Help] Re: Giving them my email

[Anon_]

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"Pop" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:cvvp2v$fm1$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> "Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message
> news:cvu6je$dsb$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> > Don Wannit wrote:
> >> I signed up for a free Hotmail account, and it appears that Hotmail
> >> does have several settings of interest to pledged spam fighters.
> >
> > I'm glad for this education, I'll probably have more questions.
> >
> >> Email goes either into your inbox or into your junk email folder,
> >> depending on your settings.
> >
> > That's rather strange and it is similar to a statement Erin made about
> > her mom looking in her Junkmail for her mail.  There's something strange
> > about that.  The purpose of a filter is to eliminate [almost] all spam
> > from your Inbox.  If there's a junkmail folder with your goodmail in
> > there and a lot of spam, then that filter hasn't functioned properly.
> >
> > You haven't described yet the discriminatory features of the hotmail
> > filter;  but that may be a bit much for posting and something that one
> > would have to actually look at to fully appreciate.
>
> ===> As a longtime past but not as of the last year or so user of Hotmail
> accounts, their filters do a pretty respectable job of sorting the mail.
> The biggest problem I found was when someone used a dictionariable name:
> Those collected spam faster than you could delete it.  Your suggestion for
a
> an alpha-dig-alpha username worked pretty well at Hotmail - as I recall it
> had to start with an alpha but after that could be any character you could
> type on a keyboard.

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As an example of the above, I have had a hotmail account with an alpha-three
digits-alpha address for over a year and received not a single spam in it.

I have another which is my first initial-last name-three digits and have had
the usual load of spam almost from the start (all hotmail options on signup
where don't list me in YOUR address book and don't sign me up for anything.)

So your address sample is a good one to thwart the dictionary address
spammers.

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A SpamCop user and forum reader,
Not Admin
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