477 Spams eaten and counting…

…so says the Spam Karma 2 Plug-In at the botton of my journal. THANK GOD for this little plug-in. Before I was deleting them as they were coming in… and now? AUTO-POOF!

The War Against Spam is one I think I’m winning now. With my new server, my mail client has this thing called a "Spam Trap Box". I have it turned on and now I get NO SPAM AT ALL in email as well as my blog. What happens is…when you send me an email, it sends and auto-reply saying something like "You must reply to this message with the subject intact to prove that you are a real live human being and not some sort of Spam Robot". By doing this…it adds your email to a "whitelist" and future emails all go through. So far it’s been working like a charm.

The only fallback is…I have to keep checking the trap box to make sure some things do go through [like my bank statements, or if I order something online and they need to send confirmation]. This is not a problem though…I just glance at it once a day.

So now, when the auto-emails that usually scam grandmothers out of their life savings from those Princes of Nigeria needing help getting their millions of dollars try to auto-email me, they get spammed right back (those fuckers).

"Nigeria has developed Weapons of Spam Destruction and we need to act!"

So with Memorial Day Weekend passing us by, we should also remember the soldiers lost in the Spam Wars as well as the real life ones