On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> WebSales wrote:
>> A bit of a pain though. I tried to contact Embedinc by email and have
>> received reply stating the email has been disabled and I must ring
>> them.
>
> Yup.  We got 100s of spams a day on the INFO address and a legitimate
> inquiry every week or two.  It wasn't worth it.  However, you've got my
> email address via this list, so you can contact me directly.

Normal people have *two* published addresses and *one* of them accepts 
email from users. The other is harvested by spammers together with the 
first one and feeds the spam filter which marks everything that appears 
in both mailboxes as spam. I have had my email address on my website for 
ten years now and my spam filter achieves 99.5% efficiency. It requires 
zero maintenance effort. Nowadays I use another filter but the old one 
still works.

Peter
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