Juergen Specht wrote:
>>All you have to do is to select a long name (15 letters +
>>numbers + extra characters) with some
>>extra characters such as .__/?&% etc - then you will get
>>zero spam.
>
>
> Mhm, I have to agree here. I have the same i-mode email address
> since more than 2 years and didn't received any spam since pretty
> much that time. I have not even any filters installed.
> My mobile address is rather obvious, but long nonetheless.
>
> As a company who provides email services, I also can tell you that
> Japanese people are very creative in selecting their mobile email
> addresses...they are long, contain a lot of graphical elements
> and tell a lot about the user and his state of mind or hobby.
I also got zero spam for a considerable period of time. My
email address is also very obvious (to me) but un-likely to
turn up in a dictionary (japaense or english).
My suspicion is that someone bought this particular address
- i don't recall giving out anywhere but it is certainly
possible. My only option is to change the address but that
is going to cause considerable pain.
If DoCoMo actually had spam controls that worked this
wouldn't be such a big deal!
Anyway, i've found a codebase that does the IMAP proxying
that i mentioned. It's actually publicly available as part
of a SunONE Studio download. I mean, where else would it be...
j.
Received on Mon Jul 7 18:03:53 2003