I am constantly infuriated by the amount of spam I get in my email account every day. To quote a friend of mine: “Honestly, this should be the number one issue in the world today. Forget declaring war on random countries, let’s declare war on spam, and institute the death penalty while we are at it!“
我每天都在我的电子邮件帐户中收到大量垃圾邮件,这让我感到非常恼火。 引用我的一个朋友的话:“ 老实说,这应该是当今世界上的头号问题。 忘记对随机国家宣战,让我们对垃圾邮件宣战,并在我们处以死刑! “
I couldn’t agree more. So let’s start up a program to figure out who it is that is selling your email address to the spammers. We’ll start with a fresh new Gmail account, because they provide the feature that we are looking for, which is +plus addressing.
我完全同意。 因此,让我们启动一个程序,以确定是谁将您的电子邮件地址出售给垃圾邮件发送者。 我们将从一个新的新Gmail帐户开始,因为它们提供了我们正在寻找的功能,即+ plus寻址。
Essentially, plus addressing means if your email address is DONOTSPAMME@gmail.com, then you can also receive email on DONOTSPAMME+citibank@gmail.com.
从本质上讲,加地址意味着如果您的电子邮件地址是DONOTSPAMME@gmail.com ,那么您还可以通过DONOTSPAMME+citibank@gmail.com接收电子邮件。
So here’s the plan. For each and every one of your online accounts, you will change your email address to DONOTSPAMME+accountname@gmail.com, where DONOTSPAMME is your actual email name, and accountname is set to the account you are logging into.
所以这是计划。 对于您的每个在线帐户,都将您的电子邮件地址更改为DONOTSPAMME+accountname@gmail.com ,其中DONOTSPAMME是您的实际电子邮件名,而accountname设置为您要登录的帐户。
For instance, I’ve got the following: (not actual addresses, just an illustration)
例如,我有以下内容:(不是实际地址,仅是说明)
Geico: geekervongeekerson+geico@gmail.com
Geico: geekervongeekerson+geico@gmail.com
Citibank: geekervongeekerson+citibank@gmail.com
花旗银行: geekervongeekerson+citibank@gmail.com
For this to work, you have to make sure that you don’t start flashing this account around. Don’t start posting on newsgroups or anything like that.
为此,您必须确保不要开始刷新该帐户。 不要开始在新闻组或类似的话题上发帖。
Now when you start getting junk mail on this new account, you should be able to immediately see who is selling your address, because it will show up as username+guiltyspammers@gmail.com
现在,当您开始在此新帐户上收到垃圾邮件时,您应该能够立即看到谁在出售您的地址,因为它将显示为username+guiltyspammers@gmail.com
If you figure out who it is that is selling your email to spammers, drop a comment into the box below.
如果您知道是谁向垃圾邮件发送者销售电子邮件,请在下面的框中添加评论。