Posted by (PeteCresswell) on 06/17/05 04:54

Per Domestos:
>I've cut down on my spam ten fold by not including it in my NG profile
>though... don;t forget all these get put online too !!!

As you can see by the return address on this message....

I learned that one the hard way too. Way back, I had unlimited addresses so I
thought I'd be cute and supply a NG-specific address on each post.

Now, however, I'd say that the dictionary attacks outweigh the spams from those
NG posts 10:1. But, since my domain gets 7,000-8,000 spams per day that's
still a significant number.

The other bit of advice I'd offer up is to not use your name, nickname, or
anything remotely resembling same. Instead use initials or, better yet,
meaningless combinations like "xyz@Whatever.com". That should thwart the
dictionary attacks.
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PeteCresswell

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