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20040706 Tuesday July 06, 2004

Spam issue resolved? Maybe so... GMail Rather than deleting my raibledesigns-DOT-com account as I was planning on doing - today I decided to simply start forwarding e-mail from matt-AT-raibledesigns-DOT-com to my GMail account. So far, it seems to be working great. But there's a greater reason it's working well. I also removed the rule that forwarded *-AT-raibledesigns-DOT-com to matt-AT-raibledesigns.com. This seems to have reduced my junk mail by about 80%. As far as I can tell, I was getting about 800 messages per day to whateveryoucanthinkof@raibledesigns.com.

According to my ISP, I received around 250 e-mails that were forwarded to GMail, and there were only about 5 that I had to "report as spam" - GMail caught the rest. The downside is that I might be losing some e-mails. For instance, I never receive any notifications from yesterday's comment-ors. Oh well, I don't mind losing a few e-mails here and there. Hopefully I'll get the important ones. Posted in General at Jul 06 2004, 10:12:59 PM MDT 2 Comments

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I went ahead and implemented that idea I mentioned to you about only accepting messages from my whitelist. You figure, a majority of emails you receive come from people you know (just like a majority of phone calls can be identified by your phone book). The rest can use my formmail to get through and additionally I will be setting up a filter for certain "keywords" that identify queries regarding one of my projects.

I know it sounds primitive, but think about it this way. I am eliminating the problem of "email is based on a system of trust" to a system where you need to gain my trust to email me. Of course, *@raibledesigns.com gets through fine ;)

Posted by Dan Allen on July 07, 2004 at 07:30 AM MDT #

Check out mailblocks.com. Free to use and their challenge response will allow you to block unknown while allowing through what you want.

Posted by Blaine on July 09, 2004 at 08:19 PM MDT #

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