> Sometimes a secondary account can be used for stuff such as this.
There's four approaches for dealing with spam.
One, ignore it.
Two, run 'throwaway' accounts as you've mentioned.
Three, run your own mailserver or filtering apparatus and throw
EVERYTHING at the problem - Spamassassin, greylisting, a bunch of
realtime blacklists, etc. As things presently stand if you're
aggressive enough you'll get 99% but you'll also have the occasional
false-positives, 'real' email routed to your bitbucket as spam because
it came from a badly-configured mailserver.
Four, pay someone else like your ISP or Postini or Mirapoint to do it
for you.
Also, turn off HTML, turn off all kinds of rich text in your email.
Read email plain-text. It makes spam and phishes almost comically
stupid-looking.
John.
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