Carnival for the Start of May
by Mr Credit CardAlright, here is this week’s roundup on carnivals. The 98th Carnival of Personal Finance was hosted at We’re In Debt. As usual, there were lots of post. But the on post that really stood out (and is related to credit cards) is from No Credit Needed who painstakingly listed car rental policies on using debit cards. If you are a debit card holder and want to rent a car, you just might to check this out.
The Tao of Making Money was the host of the 85th Carnival of Debt Reduction. Frugal for Life was the host of this week’s Festival of Frugality. The one post that caught my eye was from Pro Bargain Hunter on Online Shopping Comparisons Tips.
For the last few weeks, SVB’s post from The Digerati Life had always caught my attention and I have been highlighting them over here. I did not find her post in any of the carnivals this week. But when I headed over to her site, I found another interesting gem. I don’t know about you, ut I personally get hundreds of spam mail in my bulk folder and new spam seems to be getting into my Inbox. SVB wrote a post on a cheap and effective way to stop email spam. I might actually soon be implementing this.

May 6th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Hey cool! I hope you are able to implement the anti-spam idea. We implemented this a month ago and so far, have not encountered any spam as compared to how it used to be for us! The only tricky part is to try to remember the email pattern used for extraneous company names, especially if they are used as usernames in their sites. For example, if you open an online account with Macy’s and they ask for an email address to register a username, then you’d supply something like mrcc-macys@domain.com, which will be your nickname for that company.
Anyway hope you are able to use it!
Now if only I can get my act together to combat my comments spam. Akismet is not enough!
May 6th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Well SVB, at least with email spam, it gets sent to a bulk folder. With WP spam , at least askimat catches lots of it. But with my forum, it just keeps coming! I have to figure out a way on that one!