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Deliverable But Unrecieved
R. Alex Whitlock
Like many computer folks, I keep a spambox that I use to sign up for services or leave comments on blogs (or message boards) so that any webspider that captures the address won't be sending crap to my main email box. It's generally been my policy to wade through that mail box every now and again, but lately it's been so bombarded with spam that I've not been as good about that lately.
A blogger whose blog I commented on mentioned that she wrote me an email. It came as a surprise to me until I realized that I put the spambox email addy whenever I comment on another blog. But in the process of fishing out that email, I found three others from people responding to comments I've left here and there. I also found another from a service I signed up for a couple of years ago that is very upset with me cause they can't renew the account because my Houston-based bank card expired.
Makes me wonder what else I've missed.
So it occurs to me that I'm going to have to start being a little proactive about all this somehow.
In any case, if you've sent any email to pariah@ev1.net and I haven't replied, it's probably because I never saw it. Apologies on that.
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I tell you I thuroughly enjoy my gmail account for my public posting. I use it all the time, it nails the vast majority of spam (it's mostly the phishing that seems to get through, but luckily google doesn't process those emails in a way to make it easy for people to get suckered in).
I've used my gmail account for all public replies, not even bothering to obfusicate the address. I am up to 20 spams a day that get properly caught by gmail, and 1-2 a day that don't. Wish I could apply their spam filters to my other accounts ;)
Your comment reminds me of something that I wish GMail or someone else would do: have a "Definitely Spam" box and a "probably spam" box. One of the reasons I've not relied on filters in the past (and put my email address on the web) is so that I can actually skim through the filtered out stuff without going through as many messages as my ev1 addy gets on a daily basis.
RAW,
I know it doesn't do much when you're on the road, but SpamBayes does in fact do three settings (Spam, Unknown, and Nonspam) that can be sorted by any properly usable email client.
Mike
RAW-
did you ever think to shoot a suggestion to GMAIL? Could never hurt.
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Comment spam is an ongoing problems that we're trying to address. Previously we required people to create accounts and log in. I am thankful to say that is no longer the case. We're giving Captcha another try and are playing around with a text-based Q&A variant of Captcha. So bear with us as we try to figure out how to best get a handle ont he problem. Please note that any comment on a post more than 30 days old will go into the moderation queue, where I will get to it when I can which could be once a week.
