An e-mail address on a web site is a great target. Poor Don.
Got that right. At the moment, there are three levels of spam filters set on
[email protected]. John has one set at his end so that only emails explicitly addressed to "lansing" are forwarded. My ISP has a black box spam filter. It's a black box because the rules it uses are kept secret from me, but it seems to ferret out about 80% of the spam. I have also engaged the junk email filter on Outlook and it catches another 10%.
Overall, I get around 100 spam emails per day and the filters move around 90% of this to "junk" folders. Quite honestly, I no longer have the time to inspect each entry to confirm that it truly is junk before it is automatically deleted. Not to mention that doing so pretty much defeats the purpose of using a spam filter. The few times I have checked has indicated that the filters seem to be around 99.9% effective.
This is a long winded way of saying that there will be times that the spam filters will wrongly identify legitimate email as spam. Therefore, if you are waiting for a reply from me for any length of time, there is a chance that your original email never made it past the spam filters.
On a separate note, one of the most common emails I get to
[email protected] has to do with newly registered members of our forum being unable to log in. This is almost always due to the sender's spam filters blocking the automated emails from our forum. Just about all of the big names in email are guaranteed to block automated emails as spam. Therefore, anyone registering from an AOL, MSN, Yahoo or Hotmail address will likely experience this.