Escaping spam

[Randomface74]

yup

 

[Tomsk]

Select the vegetarian option in your email reader to automatically filter spam.

 

[Stelly]

The irony of this thread lol

Stelly

 

[Russinating]

Gmail does a pretty good job for me with it's spam marking.

Otherwise personal domain as above, and yes, you can have [email protected] and it'll all get redirected to a single account. I mainly use this for maximizing offers that rely on a unique email address, such as free drinks at Pitcher & Piano .

 

[SuperOwl86]

How would I go around the my own domain name route. Looking into it since my main account is being closed by o2 next month.

 

[platinum87]

I only check emails i am expecting them, like clicking confirmation links when i sign up somewhere.

Its a personal email, not a business one, and as such there is nothing of any importance.

 

[dirtychinchilla]

I just make sure to unsubscribe to anything that's evident BS. I don't really get any random crap through to my main inbox, though.

 

[d_brennen]

Does GMail allow you to block domains? Every now and then I get some spam in my ancient hotmail account, which I've had since the late 90s, I just bin the domain, unless it's one sent from a compromised hotmail/live/gmail/yahoo etc account

 

[Richie]

GMail lets you add anything you want to your email address so you can track where the "leak" is coming from as well by adding "+anythingyouwant here" between your address and the @ symbol e.g.

Real address - joe.bloggs+ocuk@gmail.com

 

[Draeger]

I've sometimes wondered if there's any way to spam the spammers, give them a taste of their own medicine so to speak? How satisfying would it be to flood a company's mailbox to such an extent that they experience serious problems?

THIS looks quite interesting, wonder if that would do the job?

 

[Devrij]

It's pretty clear that the stuff I'm getting is bot generated, so afraid not (no unsubscribe button either ) I'm definitely going to start using the "+whatever" tip when signing up to new sites though