Best way to combat junk mail. Hotmail?

moonrakerz · 17 October 2006 at 7:15PM

I started getting a lot of spam, nothing really offensive - just annoying.
I opened a free e-mail account on line, changed my own e-mail address very slightly (from [email]fred@****.com[/email] to [email]freds@****.com[/email]), Sent an e-mail to all those I trusted telling them of the change. Then set up a divert so that every thing to [email]fred@****.com[/email] went straight to the new account. I check that account occasionally to see if there is anyone I have missed. The new account deletes everything after a month.
Hope you followed that !

tomstickland · 18 October 2006 at 9:16AM

I've used rules in the past and it's not a particularly good solution.

I've never clicked on an unsubscribe.

I have joined loads of gambling web sites over the last year whilst bookie and casino bonus bagging. I reckon my details have been leaked from one of them.

I spent a few hours on my new plan last night. Each website has been allocated a different contact email. Each email address then forwards to one of several header accounts . If I start to receive junk on one address I can then trace the source of the leak and update one email address and it'll all be sorted.

pigeonpie · 18 October 2006 at 11:25AM

yahoo's pretty good at filtering spam. However you do have to check junk as some real mail ends up in there occasionally.

Best way to combat junk mail. Hotmail?

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