Another alternative: purchase a domain name (www.godaddy.com is usually
$8.95/year). Then have someone host it. I have several hosts... cheapest
(w/poor technical support) that I have found is www.aprilhost.com
($29.95/year~100mb, ftp, pop3, CGI, webmail, 10 e-mail accounts). I have
seen some as little as $12/year (for 5 mb space and 1 pop account). I then
setup e-mails for specific subjects... wife's account, family, Linux,
security, spam, etc. Then use the e-mail account for whatever. I find that
this significantly reduces the amount of spam I get. Much less than the the
"regular" accounts get (hotmail, yahoo, msn, rr, etc.) All of the e-mail
accounts that I have setup, receive about 1 spam every 4 months (except the
"spam" accounts). Another bonus is that your e-mail account is now
independant of your ISP, host (though you may have to switch), etc.
Pete
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Buehler" <swbuehler@yahoo.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] annoying cert farms, privacy, and MY FARGIN e-mail
address
>
> --- Josh Tiner <jtiner@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > Ok Guys,
> >
> > Something happened to me today by a local Tampa Bay
> > certification farm
> > sending out e-mails to LOTS of people, hawking their
> > "guaranteed to pass
> > courses" (and free classes), and simply put ALL the
> > email addresses in
> > the TO: field of the e-mail. I just noticed this
> > when I decided to stop
> > being lazy and send a reply back respectfully
> > requesting to be removed
> > from all further mailings.
> >
> > Shouldn't this behavior be illegal?
>
> Unfortunately at this time, it isn't, even if you tell
> them you don't want to be emailed anymore (I think
> California is one of the few states, if not the only
> state, that has anti-spam laws on the books). There
> was some attempt at legislation in Congress a year or
> so ago that basically died in committee.
>
> Under both state and federal law, you can tell a
> telemarketer that you don't want to be called anymore,
> and if they call again after your having told them to
> stop, they are liable for $500 per occurrence under
> either the Florida law (if the telemarketer is
> in-state) or Federal law (if the telemarketer is in
> another state). Same rules apply to junk faxes
> (although the FCC is currently barred from prosecuting
> by a recent appeals court decision that the Federal
> junk fax law is unconstitutional). Under the federal
> law, if you can prove that the breach was intentional
> and not "accidental", the award triples to $1,500 per
> occurrence.
>
> The caveats -- you have to sue the company (assuming
> you can even locate them to deliver service of
> process) for the money, and most of these companies
> typically fold and move out of town before service
> ever reaches them. Even if you win, *YOU* are
> responsible for collecting from the company, and the
> chances of collecting are near zero with most of these
> companies. Plus, the cost of the suit and collection
> would likely exceed the award you obtain anyway, and
> if you lose you could be forced to pay for the
> company's attorney fees.
>
> My recommended solution is for a user to open an
> account on Hotmail or somewhere like that and use that
> address when signing up for things or posting to
> newsgroups and such (most of the spammers pull email
> addresses from Usenet postings and chat rooms as well
> as buying lists from other companies). I have such a
> Hotmail account and it routinely gets over 50 - 60
> messages a day, all of which are spam. This address
> that I'm posting from receives almost no spam because
> I use it for stuff that I *know* doesn't get passed on
> to spam address collectors.
>
> =====
>
> Steven W. Buehler | swbuehler@yahoo.com
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>
>
>
>
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