From: Dave <promisedplanet_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:24:21 -0500

As an aside, I'm a bit perplexed by people who still have a problem with
spam. Isn't it fairly easy to get a "throw away" email address these days?
I set up this free Gmail account (and no, I don't work for Google ;-), which
I can access via a POP3 client, purely for the purposes of mailing lists and
other non-personal, non-work-related communication. Gmail neatly and
quietly throws all the spam I receive into a bulk folder, missing at most
one or two spam messages per month. I used to monitor the bulk folder for
non-spam messages from time to time, but stopped doing that when I never
found any.

I wholeheartedly encourage any effort to make spammers less effective, and I
think the battle against spam is important (personally I think it'll require
gov't regulation, but that's for another thread), but holy moly ... with
modern filters, spam shouldn't be filling up anybody's inbox. Just my two
cents.
Received on 2007-02-21