NASA is supposedly already working on putting a network server in Mars orbit so that rovers and other things there can ~email and forget~ data. I am told that the IP ranges (presumably in IP6 only) and domains for the major planets and other such have already been set aside, but I have no solid source for that. number12 should be able to give you better data on it.
Using my current primary email address, which I've had for five years (?) or so, I still only get eight or ten spam messages a day, about the same as my legitimate traffic. Still far more than I Should get, true, but not the insane levels I hear about elsewhere. And literally hundreds of sites, technical and personal, have that address.
If you work at it regularly (not hard, just Very consistently) you Can keep the spam down to a reasonable level. The single best protection you can have (in my admittedly atypical experience) is to Not give it to every site that asks. Most have no reason or need for any real info on you at all. They collect it to sell and not for any legitimate purpose. Thus, giving them a 'dump' address, or one that you invent as alias of the moment will work just as well to get access to most places' content. Having worked for places where it was Illegal to give out legitimate access information, we Had to find ways around much of the BS.
The biggest problem I've had was Other people giving my address to dodgy sites in order to ~forward~ something or ~send this to my friend~ to me. This is frequently a scam to harvest addresses for sale to spammers. This is directly responsible for at least 80% of the spam I get, if not more. Almost Every time someone sends me something through a web site's ~send this ...~ link, the spam-load increases. I know that my friends don't do this maliciously, but it can be Very frustrating. Grrr!
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Using my current primary email address, which I've had for five years (?) or so, I still only get eight or ten spam messages a day, about the same as my legitimate traffic. Still far more than I Should get, true, but not the insane levels I hear about elsewhere. And literally hundreds of sites, technical and personal, have that address.
If you work at it regularly (not hard, just Very consistently) you Can keep the spam down to a reasonable level. The single best protection you can have (in my admittedly atypical experience) is to Not give it to every site that asks. Most have no reason or need for any real info on you at all. They collect it to sell and not for any legitimate purpose. Thus, giving them a 'dump' address, or one that you invent as alias of the moment will work just as well to get access to most places' content. Having worked for places where it was Illegal to give out legitimate access information, we Had to find ways around much of the BS.
The biggest problem I've had was Other people giving my address to dodgy sites in order to ~forward~ something or ~send this to my friend~ to me. This is frequently a scam to harvest addresses for sale to spammers. This is directly responsible for at least 80% of the spam I get, if not more. Almost Every time someone sends me something through a web site's ~send this ...~ link, the spam-load increases. I know that my friends don't do this maliciously, but it can be Very frustrating. Grrr!