Re: [tlug] Email address munging in the TLUG archives (C&C)

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Edward Middleton writes:
>
>  > An email address I previously used is already widely disseminated.  I
>  > have been coming up as the first non-dead Edward Middleton on google for
>  > some time, and until recently so did my email address.  While I can
>  > understand your need to disseminate your contact details, the previously
>  > googlable email account has such a low signal to noise ratio that spam
>  > filtering is ineffective.
>
> Both of my active accounts are easily harvestable, and spam filtering
> is very effective.  The last couple of weeks spam has been getting
> through frequently enough that next week I'll take a few minutes to
> read a few and shore up my filters, as a *proactive* matter.  It's not
> a level that noticably impacts my work; I take about 10X that much
> damage from my boss.
>   

The issue is not whether spam gets through but whether legit mail gets
through the spam filter.

Edward