Email

[lnr]

Email to my lspace address is pretty slow at the moment, sometimes only a couple of hours, sometimes as much as a day or two. If you want to get hold of me more quickly then mail direct to chiark will work better, though I'm not reading it at work.

It's something which seems to happen every once in a while, and is getting more common. A side effect of lots of spam and viruses really: lspace forwards mine to me and chiark gets stroppy at it. I'm beginning to wonder about retiring the address. Although I like its brevity, and it has been around for a long time now and is probably the easiest way for many people to find me. Argh, indecision.

Comments

[emperor]

can you not frob SAUCE to love your lspace account?

[lnr]

Sauce is frobbed as much as possible.

[rillaith.livejournal.com]

I still use my harem account for much the same reason - some people only (AFAIK) have that.

Why not forward it to gmail, hotmail, or other spam-filtering free web thing? (Hotmail gets included because it's been working really remarkably well for my parents.)

[lnr]

I tried forwarding all my mail onto Gmail for a while. It's appalling at spam filtering. And I don't *want* a webmail client anyway, I'm quite happy with my current mail client and I do want all my mail in the same place.

I'm not actually having any trouble with the spam itself, since it all gets filtered quite happily, it's just an unfortunate side effect of using a forwarding address with chiark: all mail seems to come from the same sending site, so if there's a lot of bad mail then chiark reacts and the good mail gets delayed too.

Actually at the moment it seems lspace is taking ages before even trying to send stuff on to me at chiark, god knows what that means.

[rillaith.livejournal.com]

I didn't either, being a diehard pine user as a leftover effect of uni... but deleting 10k mails every couple of weeks was Not Fun *BLECH*

Gmail filted about 80% of the spam so far, and it seems they may be doing things to it... some weeks I get more filtered, others less. Hotmail seems much more effective for my parents (but they don't get nearly so much spam).

Anywhere with spam filtering that you can send it *through* between lspace and chiark, either forwarding on or collecting via POP/IMAP, perhaps?

[imc.livejournal.com]

Anywhere with spam filtering that you can send it *through* between lspace and chiark, either forwarding on or collecting via POP/IMAP, perhaps?

SpamCop (http://spamcop.net/) is one such service, but it does cost US$30 per year at present. There may be others.

easiest way

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Retiring it doesn't have to mean you stop accepting mail at that at address...

Re: easiest way

[lnr]

Oh indeed, you may have noticed I'm not longer using it for outgoing mail or news...

[fanf]

Forward to chiark via hermes? :-)

[lnr]

*giggle* Now that *would* be silly. But chiark rarely gets stroppy at hermes it's true. Now I just need to remember my hermes password...