avoid spam - change email?

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So, to avoid spam, how does changing email address help? No matter what
email I have, I want people (whom I choose) to contact me. So, if I keep
changing my email, how will people know where to contact me?

OR, did you mean (when "you" told me to change email addresses -- see "virus
UGH!") to use a different email address when writing to these help/user
boards?

Thanks in advance for anyone's ideas on this "how to avoid 250 spams a day!"
 
Yep, use fake addresses whenever you don't have to use a real one. Use a
separate box if you need to post a valid account and just keep your private
one private.

If you get spammed on your private one you could seek the possibility to
change addres a mail every one who you want to keep as a contact your new
addres.

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I would suspect that wont work. I've been getting a lot of 'returned' mail I
have supposedly sent. Most appear to be gibberish address making me suspect
that someone has the ability to generate combinations of names till something
gets through. A ham radio mail redirector I belong to suffers badly since the
combinations are so easy to figure out. I had junk mail the first day I opened
an account, before I even used it.

An observation: In all the crap I get I notice an absence of mail to addresses
that have imbedded periods such as (e-mail address removed). The other is the longer
your e-mail name the less chance they figure it out. Putting nospam or
removeme doesn't work any more they have filters for that to to extract your
address. And never e-mail to get off a list, it does the exact opposite, they
know you exist.

I live with, my filters get most, I kill the rest

Steve L.
 
Thanks to both of you -- I will try both. I use a mail washer to get them,
but I have to actually still "walk through" the mail to make certain that
the good ones don't get bounced! I will try both.

What's interesting to me is, I DO have a mail account that I almost never
use, and it doesn't get spammed! HUMPH!
Thanks for the postings!
 
The answer is definitely not fail proof; it's just a start. The question was
about changing mail addresses and not about using spamfilters or something
like that. Even when you use spamfilters the use of multiple addresses for
different purposes is a good base to begin with.

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