Mild pitting of my old isp/spam e-mail address.

The BBQ Pit
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I have just found out that my old ISP has adopted a policy of deleting accounts that are not dialed into for a set amount of time. My old isp now serves as my spam address so I NEVER dial in. I just check the e-mail at work or whilst dialled into a different account.

Now I have to remember all the places I’ve used that e-mail address, and change it. I’ve created a new spam address with my current isp.
On the up side, Once the account closes I won’t have to wade through all that facking spam that it gathered every day. Including the now boring daily “please scan your pc for errors by [date]” and “new microsoft security update” (yeah right!) and “mail delivery system - undeliverable” (Er, I didn’t send any mail from this account) messages.
anyone else got experience with ‘migrating’ a spam address? Got any advice for me? thinks I might be likely to forget to do? thanks.

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damn. even charter member’s posts get eaten.

any general advice on how to avoid my new spam address from gathering spam?

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Don’t tell anyone, anywhere, and especially not online, what your new spam address is.

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Ice Wolf:

Probably necessary, but not sufficient.

I signed up for a new account from my ISP purely because I get x megs of FTP space for every account and I’m entitled to 5 accounts for free with the base account. In other words, didn’t need the extra email account, just the extra megs of FTP space.

And yet I already get spam at that totally unusued, totally unadvertised and unpublished, email address.