Once your e-mail addy is out in the spam market...

[Yo Ma Ma]

Is there any way to cleane said address once it is totally spamified, or is it best just to start over with a new one?

 

[GreenBeret]

start over.

 

[Nutcase99]

Start over.

 

[beer]

Basically, start over. Eventually you may want to sign up for all your e-commerce sites on one addy, all your spam on another, and have a 3rd address for personal correspondence. It works fairly well and my main address has not been spamified yet.

 

[nd]

Eventually your address will leak. I've learned to accept this and have no problem using my primary address nearly everywhere. Sure, I would get quite a bit of spam -- but it's amazing how much good decent spam filtering scripts and blackhole lists will do.

 

[Daniel]

At least 2 years on my one address and I've been fine, but just lately I've been getting daily emails about debt reduction spam, totally out of nowhere and all the same subject.

 

[AndrewR]

I kept mine spamfree for about 2-3 years then it just went ballistic. It's fairly inevitable because all it takes is ONE company to get it. What a pain.

Is it legal to firebomb spammer computers? j/k

 

[IBhacknU]

who's got the EARL (url) for that spam buster website. It's the one you can submit your failed attempts to cancel SPAM.

anyone?

 

[kduncan5]

Last time I formatted this computer, when I activated my Outlook Express using Hotmail, I started getting all these porno adds from nowhere, so I had to create a new address, at least for Outlook Express. Since then, everything's been fine.

I've been using my regular email address for about a year now, I get some spam due to the GF's rewards programs, but overall not bad enough to make me want to create a new address.

If you're getting spammed really bad though, I'd say get a new address. -kd5-