On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:22:13 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 23:50:15 -0400, Metspitzer
wrote:

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:58:18 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:08:31 -0400, Metspitzer
wrote:

Here is a workable idea, if I could just convince Gmail to try it.
When you sign up for an email address you can have the option of using
a permission only email address. You always have the option of using
your regular email address that passes everything,
but Gmail also gives you an address like

Anything going to (spamblock) would be blocked.
The contacts you have for are automatically passed
to the permission only address. Any email you send from either
address will be white listed and passed to the permission only
address.

You can also have Gmail store passwords so that any emails that have
the password in the subject and/or body will pass. You can use more
than one password that can be permanent or expire.

Hint. Your first name or nickname would be a good permanent password
that you could give to your friends and put on business cards.

You could even post your permission only address on Usenet with a
password that expired every month.

put crazyhead in the subject for permission to
email me.

Google makes most of it's money selling your info to spammers. Why
would they want to limit that?

I don't think that is true. They use/sell your search results, but
not your personal information.


The way to find out would be to start a G mail account and never
actually use it. Just be logged into Google when you are searching and
see what spam it collects.

Except that spammers take names they have in one domain, and spray
them across others -- so if is on a spam list,
it's pretty much guaranteed that will be tried
blindly also. You'd have to set up a gmail account with a name so
unique it couldn't be in use elsewhere for this experiment to be
somewhat valid.

Josh