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Stephen,

I have one email address (undisclosed here) that I almost never use. It was setup as a joke to send one email to one person. Yet I still get spam on that account. 

If your IT department does not have a good spam filter, there are a number of spam filtering add-ons for various email clients. Look for one that learns based on your decisions, as well as based on its built in rules. 

Chris

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Sent from my iPhone please excuse typos.

On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:22 AM, Steffen Dietzel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Dear all,
> 
> for sorting reasons, I use a special e-mail account only for this list. Recently, I noticed that I also get spam to this account. Not with a high frequency (yet?) but still annoying.
> 
> Normally, it is not possible to extract e-mails from the web interface of the confocal archive, but when I searched with Google for the e-mail address in question it came up with quite a number of hits.
> 
> As far as I see it there are two types of such hits: one is a text-only version of a CONFOCALMICROSCOPY Digest, mentioning 10 senders with full e-mail address. The other type is replies to my own postings,  with the line
> "On (date) at 1:36 PM, Steffen Dietzel <e-mail> wrote:"
> also carrying the full address.
> 
> My questions:
> 1) do others note similar Spam?
> 2) is there something that can be done in the server configuration?
> 
> I don't mind getting notifications on the Olympus Bioscapes Competition, and even messages from CoolLED Life Sciences <[log in to unmask]> might be potentially interesting, but I can definitely do without "FLASH DAY TRADE ALERT" (from [log in to unmask]) or "Einkommen steigern!" from [log in to unmask]
> 
> Steffen
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