I don't use any SPAM filtering, nor does my provider, but I don't remember getting a spam since the 1990's.
If you take reasonable steps: don't sign up for things except with a throwaway, and keep your email for your friends and family, then how would you ever get spammed? Your friends aren't going to spam you, and the real spammers won't have your addy.
I've followed that approach and am happily spam free. Spam is a 1990's problem, not a 2014-almost-15 problem. Use common sense and that's enough.
However, all it takes is for one friend to use your business email address
People don't email people any more, they contact them on FB. There's no reason for your friends to even have "your business email". Most of the people I know barely even know what to do with an email address, and they certainly don't use it for friend-to-friend talking.
So I'd agree, there's no reason to ever get spammed. Use throwaways when signing up, and that's all you need to do.
who gets spam any more? (Score:-1)
I don't use any SPAM filtering, nor does my provider, but I don't remember getting a spam since the 1990's.
If you take reasonable steps: don't sign up for things except with a throwaway, and keep your email for your friends and family, then how would you ever get spammed? Your friends aren't going to spam you, and the real spammers won't have your addy.
I've followed that approach and am happily spam free. Spam is a 1990's problem, not a 2014-almost-15 problem. Use common sense and that's enough.
Re:who gets spam any more? (Score:2)
I use comment sense and go even one step further and make an alias on the server for each service/company that asks for my personal email address.
However, all it takes is for one friend to use your business email address for an online service (some stupid file-sharing site) and you're screwed.
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However, all it takes is for one friend to use your business email address
People don't email people any more, they contact them on FB. There's no reason for your friends to even have "your business email". Most of the people I know barely even know what to do with an email address, and they certainly don't use it for friend-to-friend talking.
So I'd agree, there's no reason to ever get spammed. Use throwaways when signing up, and that's all you need to do.
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Only kids use Facebook.
or
If you need me to have a Facebook account to be able to contact me, then drop me as a friend.
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That might be fine among neckbeards, but out in the real world, people communicate with Facebook.
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In my real world, when I want to talk to my friends, I ring them, email them, or even go to see them.
Facebook seems to be for attention whores who live in their mom's basement and wish they had actual friends.
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Or one virus on his computer to dump out his contact list (or just guessing his webmail password).
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If there's one thing Slashdot could use more of, it's comment sense.