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will email die in 2007?

over the past couple of months i've seen a staggering 75-100% increase in email spam on my snowdeal.org accounts which is apparently related to the proliferation in botnets; even with spamassassin filtering on the server side and thunderbird's bayesian algorithms on the client side, automatically tagging and sifting spam into a separate folder, i still have to wade through the 10% of messages they don't catch, which ends up amounting to hundreds of messages a day.

at this rate, if i project out a couple of months my inbox is going to be completely unmanageable ( already if your message gets mistakenly sent into the spam folder i'm never going to see it because i don't have the time to wade through thousands of messages a day to find the occasional false positive ). i have a pretty good handle on the things i could do to help slow the spam including turning of the ability to receive any message addressed to my domain and tuning spamassassin a bit, but if past history is any guide that will buy me maybe 6 months of reprieve. if you have a strategy that seems to have worked well for you, feel free to share it in the comments.

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I'm working on something that I really believe will eliminate the spam problem once and for all. I had a prototype running for a year and 1/2. I only got 1 spam - and that was from a guy who personally responded to my spam programs verification email. I didn't lose a single legit email, not from stores, online newsletters, or long lost friends.

I should have a new version up in a few weeks. It'll be at MySpamCleaner.com. Drop by if you want to help me test it out.

oh yeah, here's my email address. Me@RandyHamilton.com. Feel free to sign me up for anything at all! I like a good challenge.

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will email die in 2007?

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