[ale] Spam advise sought

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Leo Laporte of the This Week In Tech network likes spam filtering service called MailRoute.  You can find times when he and Steve Gibson discuss it on the Security Now show with the following google search.

mailroute site:grc.com

Sincerely,

Ron


Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:

>I have one email address that is getting deluged with spam.  All the 
>rest are normal.  The emails are something about $3 per month auto 
>insurance because of fed legal change, wanting to sell me a spice that 
>will make me turn into a skinny guy, get my degree certificate without 
>going to class, etc.  I have spam assassin on the server (yes, it's my 
>system running Centos 6) and using Thunderbird (Ubuntu 10.04) with the 
>junk mail controls enabled.  So far it's running about 30:1 spam:ham.  
>I've never trained spam assassin since I don't keep mail there and
>never 
>figured out how to do the training remotely.
>
>I'm kinda tired of it.  Other than turning it off, is there anything I 
>can do?  It's wierd.  I'll get these strange emails for a while and
>then 
>nothing for a bit then it'll start with a new set of bogus 
>offers/links/garbage.
>
>Thanks,
>Jim.
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