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The Frustration Loop

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Re: The Frustration Loop

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Post by surrTurr »

Nevermark wrote: post #76

I came up with a simple way to eliminate spam in my email, without any third party filtering. I have my own domain name for email. My email box accepts anything that goes the domain. I.e. a catchall email account. However, I give a different email address to every site and service. I.e. sitea@mydomain.com, site2@mydomain.com This lets my email reliably get auto sorted by who its from. But I also use a consistent form…

Alternatives if you don't have your own domain:

- Fastmail masked emails (https://app.fastmail.com) - Firefox relay (https://relay.firefox.com/) - SimpleLogin (https://simplelogin.io/)

There's many more.

Re: The Frustration Loop

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Post by rambambram »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #28

The best spam protection I ever had, was a bunch of hidden text input fields on my mail contact form, with names like “blindcopy”, “bcc”, “cc”, “additional address”, etc. They all had default values. If the submitting handler detected any values in these fields that were different from the default, the submission was rejected. I don’t think I ever got a single bogus email from that form.

I did the same, worked wonders for me.

Re: The Frustration Loop

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Post by zufallsheld »

Nevermark wrote: post #76

I came up with a simple way to eliminate spam in my email, without any third party filtering. I have my own domain name for email. My email box accepts anything that goes the domain. I.e. a catchall email account. However, I give a different email address to every site and service. I.e. sitea@mydomain.com, site2@mydomain.com This lets my email reliably get auto sorted by who its from. But I also use a consistent form…

I've been doing the same for some years now, except auto deleting anything.

What I noticed is that the only spam I get goes to my mail address that's published on my blog and my github address. So it seems that nobody sold my address to spammers, they only scraped Publicly available addresses.

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Post by jcynix »

Nevermark wrote: post #76

I came up with a simple way to eliminate spam in my email, without any third party filtering. I have my own domain name for email. My email box accepts anything that goes the domain. I.e. a catchall email account. However, I give a different email address to every site and service. I.e. sitea@mydomain.com, site2@mydomain.com This lets my email reliably get auto sorted by who its from. But I also use a consistent form…

Similar setup for me: separate addresses for external parties, which BTW, helps phishing recognition too, because e.g. a "note from my bank" to an address I did set up for some shop cannot be real. And those abused addresses can be deleted from /etc/aliases to render them void.

Besides that my postfix server is configured to reject connections, where the sending site does not have a reverse DNS mapping. Worked twenty years ago, is still useful today when I check my logs.

Re: The Frustration Loop

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Post by Rygian »

tofurocks wrote: post #78
Nevermark wrote: post #76

I came up with a simple way to eliminate spam in my email, without any third party filtering. I have my own domain name for email. My email box accepts anything that goes the domain. I.e. a catchall email account. However, I give a different email address to every site and service. I.e. sitea@mydomain.com, site2@mydomain.com This lets my email reliably get auto sorted by who its from. But I also use a consistent form…

You can do something similar with Gmail - if your email is matt@gmail.com you can receive to Matt+1@gmail.com, matt+2 etc. Although some websites reject this format.

Spammers will definitely remove the + suffix.

Re: The Frustration Loop

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Post by philihp »

I've never understood the appeal of guestbooks and commenting on Wordpress. Static HTML is a wonderful medium for getting your message out, do we need the validation of visitors commenting?

Re: The Frustration Loop

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Post by cobbaut »

tofurocks wrote: post #78
Nevermark wrote: post #76

I came up with a simple way to eliminate spam in my email, without any third party filtering. I have my own domain name for email. My email box accepts anything that goes the domain. I.e. a catchall email account. However, I give a different email address to every site and service. I.e. sitea@mydomain.com, site2@mydomain.com This lets my email reliably get auto sorted by who its from. But I also use a consistent form…

You can do something similar with Gmail - if your email is matt@gmail.com you can receive to Matt+1@gmail.com, matt+2 etc. Although some websites reject this format.

While the + is part of the RFC, many websites do not accept a +sign in an email address field.

Re: The Frustration Loop

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Post by illwrks »

philihp wrote: post #87

I've never understood the appeal of guestbooks and commenting on Wordpress. Static HTML is a wonderful medium for getting your message out, do we need the validation of visitors commenting?

I think.... just like reality, some people love the attention feedback loop. They are hardwired for it.

Re: The Frustration Loop

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Post by pjc50 »

philihp wrote: post #87

I've never understood the appeal of guestbooks and commenting on Wordpress. Static HTML is a wonderful medium for getting your message out, do we need the validation of visitors commenting?

Nobody like talking into a void. Audience feedback is necessary for most people to bother continuing to do it.
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