Thanks for the help guys. Just talked to our system admin guy. Other than a spam filter, basically no hope. Complex e-mail address is out. We're stuck with what we are given by the administration. Have heard good and bad about the spam filters. Our University has chosen not to use a system wide spam filter. My system admin guy suggested switching e-mail to Thunderbird which has a sort of self-learning spam filter. Best advice that he could come up with. Sammie At 12:56 PM 2/2/2005, you wrote: >Bad news, > >It just takes one spammer to harvest your address, the address is then >shared out to other spammers around the globe. There's no stopping the >propagation at this point. > >The only way to limit your spam, is to ask your sys admin to integrate >an anti-spam engine such as spam assassin with your mail server. This >will stop the spam at your mail server before it reaches your account. > >You may notice sometimes that you get "garbage" mails that do not >include any spam - just nonsensical content. This is a spammer testing >your address to see whether it is valid. If the message to you doesn't >bounce, they know they have a valid address. > >Next time, pick a more complex mail address so that your mail address >is not easily guessed - slsmith is a fairly common abbreviation. > >Conrad > >On Feb 2, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Sammie Smith wrote: > > > I know we have some knowledgeable computer geeks on this list. Does > > anyone > > have any idea how to get off the list, or get them to cease the > > Nigerian > > scam letters. I get sometimes 10-15 per day; to the point of making it > > difficult to find my honest e-mails. > > Sammie Smith > > > >