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Dannygfc
Deputy Editor
Reg'd: Wed
Posts: 233
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Morning all...
You may have read the news that Yahoo is offering a new ymail email address so that its users can come up with an address that isn't comprised of difficult-to-remember numbers. Good news for all of us struggling to find unique email addresses. So, my question is, how hard have you found it to create a unique address? What have you had to use to find one - a pet's name? Distant cousin's middle name? Your telephone number backwards?
Ta.....
Daniel Booth
DepEd
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dangermouse75
regular
Reg'd: Sat
Posts: 1869
Loc: Leicestershire
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Back in the 1990s when I first got a Hotmail address I got a simple one such as
chris75 @hotmail.com
but I found I was getting WAY too much spam.
Spammers were sending random emails to
chris74 @hotmail.com, chris75 @hotmail.com, chris76 @hotmail.com
SO I switched to an email address that the spammers would find much more difficult to guess, e.g.
for_chris_75 @hotmail.com
The number of spam messages fell by about 90% overnight.
So my advice to people looking to register
johnsmith @ymail.com
think carefully about spam..
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bricat
HijackThis Helper
Reg'd: Wed
Posts: 28601
Loc: belfast
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One of my email addresses gets no spam at all,
and hasn't done since i've had it.
it's not a name, it's what i do on webuser. - "fixhijacks"
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Goonster
regular
Reg'd: Sat
Posts: 306
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I have only ever had one phishing e-mail since I bought the laptop last August. Maybe its because I don`t shop on the internet.Yet.I just use Vista`s Windows Mail program as I don`t send or recieve much mail.
Goonster
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dangermouse75
regular
Reg'd: Sat
Posts: 1869
Loc: Leicestershire
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I once registered for an email address and started receiving spam before I had sent my first email!
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wildthing666
regular
Reg'd: Fri
Posts: 3827
Loc: Micklefield Leeds
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My first email on AOHELL got loads of spam but I changed to the present one apart from last 2 numbers and it fell by 70% I then got a gmail addy and it nearly disappeared I then got a new googlemail addy and only had one last night from Bin Mohammed that got through the google spam filters but I just deleted it
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BedstorfromAP
Necromancer
Reg'd: Thu
Posts: 4308
Loc: 32 Bus Stops West of Wigan UK
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I tend to agree with the reason people get Spammed of the is using Common Names.
I find that a made up name plus a number will if not Hypenated or underscored "_" keep the Hackers from spidering it also NOT Publicising the same. My stock Email Name (not my Primary Name) is I found out, similar to a big American institution and a major Japanese Textile Company(Who Have those Domains) . Yet I get little or nothing in the Way of Spam (Even on my Gmail address)and no misdirected mail going to these Companies 
So how did I do it? Simple their email goes T------@... Mine goes T-------UK@... then the next address isT-------UK1@... and So on
and It baffles any Email harvesting computer because its Primarily looking for Names and common words. Mine is easy to remember memory wise but looks like nonsense on a scan. Hence its "Passed" on.
Some surnames are good but most English and Irish names are in the database. Adding a number and/or spelling it delibrately wrong but still readable may help,such as Hi11 for Hill or S31th for Smith .Think "TXT"
My password for my Broadband router (to generate a WEP Key) is made up with the same method. But has to be an exact length in characters.(13)
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petersmyth1
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Reg'd: Tue
Posts: 66
Loc: Ulster
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Hi
I'm not sure I totally agree with you because my email addresses for the last nine years have been name1@whatever ISP.Com I was using at the time. Initially I got loads of spam but over the years by never responding to them in anyway, never opening them and with the aid of my Thunderbird filters I rarely receive any spam email. What you advise is correct but also how you deal with your received emails plays a large part in controlling your spam messages.
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Picaso
regular
Reg'd: Tue
Posts: 324
Loc: Essex
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Well I must be the lucky one as I do not receive any spam and my E Mail addy is "FirstName.Surname@btinternet.com."
Happy Days 
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A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
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dangermouse75
regular
Reg'd: Sat
Posts: 1869
Loc: Leicestershire
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Maybe spam filters are better these day? When I was getting all that spam it was from a Hotmail address around 1999-2001.
Although I still receive spam to my new gmail account, the spam filters are very intelligent, as looking through the 41 messages that have been placed in the spam folder in the last month, they are all spam and nothing valuable.
My address there is
letter letter letter number number number @gmail.com I like to have an email address that is easy to tell people.
I also have a YahooMail one and occasionally I do find important messages in the spam folder there.
Always worth checking before deleting them!
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pgt67
regular
Reg'd: Wed
Posts: 43
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Spam filters must be a lot better. since moving to eclipse who I am told have some excellent spam filters I get nothing in my mail box but legit mail. 
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