Yeah, I have a .mac address for my private trusted e-mail too, but the problem is that a friend who uses a PC (recipe for disaster) got an Outlook virus (surprise, surprise!) and so I've gotten tons of spam anyway. (She had to have her son drive back home from college to clean it up for her, so we'll see if it goes away or if my address was leaked in the process.)
Also, I've used by check-once-a-week address here and told people to put 'codestore' in the subject line to avoid getting things filtered. Well, apparently there are people who manually mine addresses, because I've started getting spam at that address with 'codestore' in the subject.
I wonder when it will be time for wholesale vigilantism against spammers. The problem with that, of course, is that they may be mafia connected (or at least one major spammer in my area who has gotten slashdot and Detroit newspaper coverage has implied something like that in his threats to the photographer who tried getting pictures of his house). So any attempts to cut their lines and take down their servers could result in bloody retribution.
So the solution, then, is probably better protocols that make spoofing nearly impossible. (Perhaps everyone should just switch to Domino for e-mail.)
Yeah, I have a .mac address for my private trusted e-mail too, but the problem is that a friend who uses a PC (recipe for disaster) got an Outlook virus (surprise, surprise!) and so I've gotten tons of spam anyway. (She had to have her son drive back home from college to clean it up for her, so we'll see if it goes away or if my address was leaked in the process.)
Also, I've used by check-once-a-week address here and told people to put 'codestore' in the subject line to avoid getting things filtered. Well, apparently there are people who manually mine addresses, because I've started getting spam at that address with 'codestore' in the subject.
I wonder when it will be time for wholesale vigilantism against spammers. The problem with that, of course, is that they may be mafia connected (or at least one major spammer in my area who has gotten slashdot and Detroit newspaper coverage has implied something like that in his threats to the photographer who tried getting pictures of his house). So any attempts to cut their lines and take down their servers could result in bloody retribution.
So the solution, then, is probably better protocols that make spoofing nearly impossible. (Perhaps everyone should just switch to Domino for e-mail.)