Comments on: Physical-Mail Spam

By: Michael Clark

Michael Clark — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:55:14 +0000

Fill out Form 1500 on any of the retail spam you get. Form 1500 is a form the USPS created after the Supreme Court ruled that anyone can get pornographic mail stopped from being sent to their address. “But I’m getting Chinese restaurant junk, not porn!” you cry. But a key part of the ruling is that the USPS canNOT decide what is porn and what is not. So fill out Form 1500, declare that you think the junk mail is porn, and poof! no more stuff from that company for 5 years. This is non-appealable by the company. And if they do mail you again, they get fined significantly ($1,500 I think) after you file a complaint about it. It works for me.

You cannot stop political junk mail, or commercial junk mail that doesn’t want you to buy something. Form 1500 only works for junk mail trying to separate you from your money.

By: Gadizmo

Gadizmo — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:30:08 +0000

What settings are you using for SpamAssasin because I us it and I still junk 99.9% sounds pretty darn good to me?

Do you see any legit emails being blocked or caught?

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:57:23 +0000

@Gadizmo: I usually set it to mark spam at 5 and then auto-delete at 6 or 7. There have been one or two times legit email got caught but otherwise it’s been fantastic.