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> So is the real story here that putting your email on the open web simply isn't a significant "vulnerability" anymore? Yes. The whole obfuscate my email thing

by jjav 3y ago

> So is the real story here that putting your email on the open web simply isn't a significant "vulnerability" anymore? Yes. The whole obfuscate my email thing is silly. I have the same email since the mid 90s, I post it without any care to wherever.

Ringz 3y ago
You should have posted it right here to prove your point. /s
nvy 3y ago
Spam isn't a problem for you, I take it? What are you using to filter spam out?
- jjav 3y ago
  Spam is no longer significant. Back around year 2000 I was getting multiple thousands of spam messages per day (to the very same email address I still use today). Those were the dark and difficult days. Today I basically don't get any spam. I don't keep precise stats on the spam that makes it to my inbox but it's something like 2 or 3 per month. Compared to a few thousand per day twenty+ years ago! I want to highlight again that it is the exact same email address I use today. I block misconfigured connections at the SMTP level in postfix (I run my own mail server), that takes care of pretty much all of it. After that I run bayesian filtering (spamprobe) to score spam, but there isn't much to catch. Over the last 30 days spamprobe has caught 37 messages, all true positives. Unlike gmail, I also don't get any false positives (zero so far this year). I know how bad it was couple decades ago and a lot of people are still traumatized by those days and act like it's still 2001, but the reality in 2023 is that spam is a very minor issue.
  - tmcdos 3y ago
    I also run postfix on my own domain but instead of bayesian filtering I also run PostFwd and PostGrey. The combination of these 3 is enough in my case to reach zero SPAM emails. I can share my config if someone is interested.
- rascul 3y ago
  Most of the spam I get is the stupid newsletters that you get signed up for automatically and the unsubscribe link is broken.
  - tmcdos 3y ago
    I have the same situation

by jjav 3y ago

Ringz 3y ago

You should have posted it right here to prove your point. /s

nvy 3y ago

Spam isn't a problem for you, I take it? What are you using to filter spam out?

jjav 3y ago
Spam is no longer significant. Back around year 2000 I was getting multiple thousands of spam messages per day (to the very same email address I still use today). Those were the dark and difficult days. Today I basically don't get any spam. I don't keep precise stats on the spam that makes it to my inbox but it's something like 2 or 3 per month. Compared to a few thousand per day twenty+ years ago! I want to highlight again that it is the exact same email address I use today. I block misconfigured connections at the SMTP level in postfix (I run my own mail server), that takes care of pretty much all of it. After that I run bayesian filtering (spamprobe) to score spam, but there isn't much to catch. Over the last 30 days spamprobe has caught 37 messages, all true positives. Unlike gmail, I also don't get any false positives (zero so far this year). I know how bad it was couple decades ago and a lot of people are still traumatized by those days and act like it's still 2001, but the reality in 2023 is that spam is a very minor issue.
- tmcdos 3y ago
  I also run postfix on my own domain but instead of bayesian filtering I also run PostFwd and PostGrey. The combination of these 3 is enough in my case to reach zero SPAM emails. I can share my config if someone is interested.
rascul 3y ago
Most of the spam I get is the stupid newsletters that you get signed up for automatically and the unsubscribe link is broken.
- tmcdos 3y ago
  I have the same situation