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Email Spam: How to Virtually Eliminate It

Email spam is a scourge upon humanity. Not only does it steal our valuable and limited time away from more important or fun tasks, but it also costs untold billions of dollars in terms of bandwidth, and very often it's downright offensive. A pox on it and they who send it!

I don't claim to be an expert in the area of eliminating email spam, but I have all but eliminated the scourge of spam in my life and I have 8 separate email addresses, all of which are published on the web in various places so they've all been picked up by email spammers.

What follows is a brief history of my attempts to eliminate spam and my eventual solution of choice.

How To Compare Two Documents

Have you ever wanted to compare two text documents to see exactly what has changed from one version to the next? I find myself in this situation frequently when I need to compare two versions of code contained in separately dated versions of a PHP or HTML page. To make the comparison between the two text files I use a powerful text-difference analyzer called CSDiff by Component Software. CSDiff is an easy-to-use, powerful, feature-rich application, and best of all, it's free!