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Originally posted by rubicon
Why don't you use a spam filtering application? There are plenty around. Even the spam filter built into the newest version of Outlook is solid.
I changed my email address about 6 months ago and used a number of aliases for non-private email. I don't get any spam on my personal email account. In fact, I don't get any spam on my aliases either although I do get some on my info@ address for my business. The spam filter takes care of 99% of it.
As for tracking down the emails... You can try www.SamSpade.org for some standard tracing tools. I'm not aware of email tracing tools but I know they exist.
If you you find the source of the spam, not good odds, what then? If they're not in the U.S. you've got no options. I recently read an article about a guy in the US suing a Pennsylvania-based spam company after they wouldn't meet his "out of court" demands ($250 per spam message). He had logged quite a number of spam messages.
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Yeah, there are some damn good blocking applications out there. The Mozilla suite includes Bayesian filtering that is supposed to work pretty well, or if you feel like going hardcore, you can set up something like SpamAssassin. Also, get another email (at yahoo or hotmail or something) to use to sign up on lists and sites and things, it helps cut down the spam.