Spam finally killed me

[cjsmith]

I've turned off everything but my own addresses and they're still coming in faster than I can delete them.

I shut it all down.

I have no personal e-mail until further notice. Things won't even bounce; they'll just vanish.

Write here if you want me to see something.

Comments

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Gmail!

Gmail, gmail, gmail. Gmail gmail! Gmail gmail gmail.

(Also, gmail.)

You know I have two emails; my personal one, and the vito excalibur one, which I pretty much use for all interactions on public web pages. It forwards to my personal one. Between the two spam filters, I have to lay eyes on a spam message, oh, maybe once a week or so.

Of course there's also the Donald Knuth (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html) option. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'll skip gmail, sadly. I cannot have even the semblance of a reasonable username there ("cjsmith" is just... who I am, and that was taken before the beta invites went out) AND a multinational corporation is storing copies of all my correspondence... that one's not for me.

Donald Knuth probably has the best solution. (edit: Too bad I don't have a secretary!)

[nosrednayduj]

"yduJ" is "who I am" and it was unique until about 1998. But now it's always taken by someone who doesn't even care and wishes "judy" weren't taken. Ah well. So far the "nosrednayduj" plan is working OK. I even abandoned "yduJ" at work; I didn't press for "yduj" as username with my new job. First time. Not sure how I feel about it. Maybe I'm growing up :-)

[nurvuslee.livejournal.com]

Does this multinational corporation keep all of your emails even if they've been deleted by you?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

My most recent understanding is yes: they are no longer counted against your storage quota, but they are still kept, indexed for quick searchbot retrieval and/or undelete. However, someone who uses the service (Vito?) would know far better than I.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Forward mail from your account to gmail, then suck it back off via POP3 or IMAP, in order to outsource your spamfiltering to google (who really, truly rock at it). I wish I could take credit for the idea, but I read it in someone's blog a year or so ago.