Posted by Temsonic on 03/01/06 16:49

"Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1141209483.14500.0@ersa.uk.clara.net...
>
> "Owen" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:Q_mdnU3H5JuaP5nZRVnyvw@pipex.net...
>> Sorry for the OT post but I'm desperate. For several months now I've
>> been bombarded with US-born spam from, among others, the "Donald Trump
>> University" and other such bollocks. All of the spam is from the same
>> company, and ends with a specific messsage declaring "best practices in
>> responsible email marketing" (utter bollocks of course, the only best
>> practice with spam is not to send it to anyone).
>>
>> Here is an image of the annoyance:
>> http://www.binarybaby.co.uk/spam.htm
>>
>> I am *very* careful to keep my email address to myself, so God knows how
>> they got hold of mine, but they have, and they absolutely will not stop
>> spamming me, sometimes between 6 and 10 messages per day.
>>
>> I get spam from *nobody* else, just these fuckwits.
>>
>> Has anyone else been experienced this particularly irritating scourge
>> lately?
>>
>> Can you suggest a way to get rid of it?
>>
>> I've set up Outlook Message Rules but these seem unreliable at best.
>> Any suggestions of good anti-spam software would be welcome. I run
>> ZoneAlarm Pro for my internet security, but annoyingly it doesn't seem to
>> have anti-spam features.
>
> Do you own your own domain name?
>
> I would recommend doing this - not only does it look professional but
> randomly generated e-mails from bots would have a hell of job guessing
> owen-at-the-downtown-precinct-dot-co-dot-uk or similarly. I have been
> relatively spam free for several years because of this and the only spam I
> do get is because the tossers at TMPengc sold my address

I own my own domain and still get spam sent. The tossers just send it to
random addresses at my domain like sales@ admin@ support@ webmaster@ info@
and so on. Essentially they've just found that the domain is registered so
they fire crap at it randomly. Luckily my ISP has introduced a pretty decent
spam filtering system at the server level now so most of it never actually
reaches me these days, but having your own domain is no guarantee you'll
avoid spam.

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