I solved 95% of my spam problem when I changed my email address a year and a bit ago. Because I run my own mail server, I was able to set up a "spam alias" for things like Usenet and the various online places that want your email address. I used to set up a new alias for each one, with appropriate suffixes (ceo_amazon@ and suchlike), but that's too much work. Needless to say, it's procmail'ed into a folder entitled "spam".
The other part was that I did not set up a forward from my old email address; I checked it occasionally and told everyone who sent me mail there to stop using it. (Eventually, it died when shore.net's customer service got so execrable that they couldn't even process a change of billing address despite repeated attempts, so I stopped getting bills when the forwarding order expired, but that's a rant for another day.)
The result is that I get maybe one or two spams a week in my primary mailbox. Most of the spam goes to the spam alias and I never see it except when I skim it for legit mail once a week or so.
I hate changing my address -- I found it rather traumatic to have to do so when Digex punted its shell users. But ifwhen I get my own domain, that'll probably be the time to put that approach into play.
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The other part was that I did not set up a forward from my old email address; I checked it occasionally and told everyone who sent me mail there to stop using it. (Eventually, it died when shore.net's customer service got so execrable that they couldn't even process a change of billing address despite repeated attempts, so I stopped getting bills when the forwarding order expired, but that's a rant for another day.)
The result is that I get maybe one or two spams a week in my primary mailbox. Most of the spam goes to the spam alias and I never see it except when I skim it for legit mail once a week or so.
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