Re: [Evolution] I guess I am going to have to change my e-maill address.

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> > > The best I can figure out my e-mail address has been captured by a site
> > > that generates spam. Can anyone think of a way to fix the problem
> > > described in an earlier e-mail except by changing my e-mail address.
> > > Problem was described in an earlier e-mail.
> >
> > Changing your address is *NOT* a solution. There are SPAM and junk mail
> > management tools.  
> I use spamassassin and I have had some success. But spamassasin can only
> work on past spam that have presented to it.

That's not entirely true.  I use spamassassin in various forms and it
works fine without training it and just using the built-in rules.  The
Bayesian filter certainly adds accuracy, but it's just a part of the
total score.  Just make sure it's up-to-date and you enable the various
free RBLs.

The other thing you can do is to create your own rules - it's not
difficult and just needs some distinguishing characteristic of the spam
emails to put in a regex.

>  The producer who has
> targeted me has thousands of clients that he can send me spam about. So
> we will have to see which of us will win the battle.

It's life - isn't it something like 90% of all email traffic is spam
now?  Sadly, you'll find that posting to mailling lists will increase
your spam level, as well using certain ISPs & mail providers (Yahoo!
seems to be a particular culprit these days).  You can do things to
help, like never, ever, ever, visit a website to unsubscribe (it just
verifies that yours is a valid active email address - it's worth more
like that), and you shouldn't load images in emails (there are tracking
images that encode your email address in the URL so that, again, it
confirms the address as valid and active).

P.