I have no idea why, but I’ve been recently been getting heaps of spam sent to my regular email address. I’m usually pretty careful with giving this address out to forms and putting in web pages and the like, but I guess I must have signed up to something inadvertantly.

Gmail is usually pretty good at filtering out spam, but it’s now letting through up to 2 a day and Thunderbird, while it allows you to “train” for spam, is letting through 3-4 some days.

I know this is actually a pretty low figure for some people, but it’s irritating to me. Has anyone else been getting more spam over the last couple of weeks?

This morning I received some… strange spam. It was strange because it wasn’t spam sent to me, but it was a returned email claiming to have been from my domain (the contact address I use for my domain).

So, someone out there (and this particular person is using Compuserve to send out spam) is masquerading as me. Very annoying.

And if anyone out there is visiting this site because they want to contact the administrator/whatever about the spam — it’s not coming from here.

Grrr.

I wasn’t going to bother discussing it here, but since the account will never receive mail unless I actually tell people about it, I’m going to… tell people about it.

So, here we go. I have a Gmail account. Isn’t that thrilling? I can join the throng of nerds with my account. Anyway, here’s the address:

moc.liamg@ttewehm

Feel free to send mail to the account, I’ll be checking it every now and then anyway to see how much spam it detects; apparently it’s quite good at spam-detection (unlike Optus, their spam-detection is rubbish since half get through anyway).

Update: In case you’re wondering why I just put the email address out there (it’s a bad idea to do that since SPAM-harvesters grab them), you might want to view the source; look for the “.backwards” style.