tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8165413137385260502.post-8901823888440149892008-04-09T12:29:00.000-07:002008-04-09T13:07:09.372-07:00Oh man, these lizard feces sucking scum that are also known as spammers are totally destroying me. I get on average 150 spam e-mails every single day on my 3 main e-mail accounts, yup, that is over 450 spam e-mails every single day. My mail client is getting pretty good at identifying them but not enough and he has some failures.<br /><br />I have given up. I don't think I have ever given up on anything in my life. When I started Studlar Software I had a laptop at home, installed Fedora Linux and built my own e-mail server, web server, ldap and some other things. All with my own hard work. I did install spam blockers on the server and grey listing. Grey listing works really well ( I might explain it a little later ). I got ca 2-3 spams in my mail client in a week, and I did not loose ANY real mail.<br /><br />But once I started getting real traffic on my sites, I wasn't really happy with the uptime I had on my ADSL so I had to shell out some money and buy hosting. I decided on <a href="http://www.dreamhost.com">dreamhost.com</a>. I really like them, and you can't argue with the price.<br /><br />But when you are hosted, you don't have root access without paying quite a lot more, so at first and for the next 2 years I put up with spam. But no more. Now all my mail accounts go to gmail, and the funny thing is, I never liked gmail until 2 days ago when I finally "got it". Guess this is like so many other things, you need to use it to get it.<br /><br />Well, gmail is doing excellent work, totally excellent.<br /><br />But if you want to use dreamhost, use the coupon code trausti and it will give you a very nice discount.Traustihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05685271702713267686noreply@blogger.com