{"id":3836,"date":"2019-08-23T17:03:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T00:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2019-08-23T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T01:39:03","slug":"bye-spamgourmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2019\/08\/23\/17\/03\/bye-spamgourmet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye SpamGourmet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The greatest email service hardly anyone ever heard of, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spamgourmet.com\/index.pl\">SpamGourmet<\/a>, is shutting down after the owner tragically developed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glioblastoma\">GBM<\/a>. I&#8217;ve used SpamGourmet for nearly 20 years to block spam from finding me. It was always  resolutely anti-corporate and privacy respecting. It still has a beautiful 1990s web interface that just got the job done without any fuss. I looked into porting the server onto a VPS, which despite being a  mess of vintage Perl some brave people have managed. However my sanity  has a high price tag. I moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/trashmail.com\/\">TrashMail<\/a>, which is a pay service, along with a custom domain. Goodbye SpamGourmet and Josh Hamilton, one  of the greatest Web 1.0 sites ever. Thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code><strong>Your message stats:<br \/>  72,978 forwarded,<br \/>  228,415 eaten.<br \/>  You have 1802 spamgourmet address(es). <\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest email service hardly anyone ever heard of, SpamGourmet, is shutting down after the owner tragically developed GBM. I&#8217;ve used SpamGourmet for nearly 20 years to block spam from finding me. It was&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1929,1271,1928,1930,1931],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-email","tag-privacy-2","tag-spam","tag-spamgourmet","tag-trashmail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}