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[cjsmith]

Spam problems again. The upstream ISP has unilaterally chosen to disable my catchall address, which is very sad because I was depending on it for a lot of stuff. I can't blame them though; the servers were choking on the amount of spam I was getting, and the downstream ISP was refusing delivery of it. Nearly a hundred thousand messages, apparently, managed to stick in my upstream mail queue.

edit: I figured out why the number was so low. That's just the number that arrived between the time the upstream ISP did some server work (changing my IP address) and the time the upstream ISP noticed that there was a problem (because the downstream ISP doesn't have the new upstream IP address whitelisted). That's probably a few hours, maybe an afternoon.

Have I mentioned in the last fifteen minutes how much I loathe spammers? I have? Okay.

I am >< this close to deciding I don't need to have e-mail in my life, except as needed by my job. Thiiiiiis close. (The next person to mention gmail gets thirty lashes with a wet printout of the last ten times I explained why I'm not using gmail. Unless it would be enjoyable.)

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[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

I have gmail, but I don't use it. They block it at work and well I just don't like the web interface. Yeah, I could download it to a client, but I am lazy.

[juverna.livejournal.com]

I've been reasonably happy with Yahoo mail, which I've used entirely via the web for two years now. That's not to say that they're flawless, but I haven't yet felt motivated to switch.

Ummm, unless that's what you were on already.

FWIW, you make me laugh! :)

Let me know if you haven't received the Thing I sent you.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I received the Thing! Haven't looked at it yet though. When I get back to the office. :)

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Rondo is also this close to that same decision, for very similar reasons. And he does use g-mail, as well as a work-related address.

[shadopanther.livejournal.com]

Maybe you need a new email address, as of yet unknown to spammers?

I also feel I get too much spam on my primary email address (though the amount you've been getting seems like a logarithm of what I've gotten). (I in part think having used that address on Craiglist & signing up for "offers" that I can't seem to get rid of contribute to the problem in my case. Plus there's the spammers that send to "all at my domain".) On my yahoo address, however, it's not so bad. Plus, I have pop forwarding so I have a choice of whether I want to maintain the mail in my yahoo web mail box or in my mail client.

I wish I knew of a solution for both of us. The world needs a do-not-call list for email... it'd at least take care of some of the supposedly legitimate spam.