Best spamgourmet strategy?

[tut21]

I'm a new spamgourmet user and I'm already a big fan of the service. A big thank you to the developers and I'm going to donate a few bucks.

From what I've read spamgourmet seems reliable and trustworthy for a free service. Nevertheless, the more e-mail addresses I convert to spamgourmet the more I worry about having all of my e-mail pass through a single checkpoint that may go down for several days despite the best efforts of the administrators.

So I need some advice. Is it a bad idea to use spamgourmet for everything but personal e-mail? If I never want to give out my private e-mail address to anyone but friends should I create other e-mail accounts that forward me my important e-mail (from slightly more trustworthy sources) while using spamgourmet for unimportant stuff?

[SysKoll]

You're summing up the whole problem. Josh put countless hours in the site, and I try to give a hand. We both are completely overwhelmed by $DAYJOB, and that hampers our availablitity to code new features. The only reason we do that is that we hate spammers and we have tolerant spouses.

This is strictly a best-effort site, and as such, it comes without warranties. So super-duper important email shouldn't go through spamgourmet. Of course, it remains to be seen whether a commercial provider would give you any kind of service in case of lost email.

What we need is an enterprising soul to download the code and set up a commercially supported version of the site so that you can call a number and complain if you don't get your email. This would not preclude the existence of sg as a free site, of course.

To conclude, let's just say this: If you use a free email service and get in trouble because said site lost an important email, you'll come out as a cheapskate who got shafted because he chose to use a free service. If you use a commercial emai service and the same thing happens, you are a victim of unforeseeable circumstances who got shafted in spite of paying for his email. Same thing, different perception. That's the only real difference.

Paying for a service allows you to bitch in the uncarring ears of an underpaid Indian tech support rep. BUT: if lost email gets you in trouble, you won't be the one to blame. Nobody would accept liability in any case, but you'd come out clean.

[tut21]

I came to the same conclusion.

Does anyone have favorite strategies on how to go about it? I'm leaning towards one private e-mail for friends, another Gmail account for important stuff and spamgourmet for the rest but I'm looking for better ideas.

[SysKoll]

My friends get infected with viruses regularly, or worse, they send me email with a ton of other people in the CC list, and one of the CC guys has this Windows box on cable modem without a hardware firewall and is owned by 17 different Trojans. So my "for friends" email gets spammed regularly.

Needless to say, all my friends email me to a spamgourmet address now.