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Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: snuffysbluff on March 04, 2003, 10:07:00 AM
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Received this spam promoting a spam business promoting spam.
I'm gettin' real sick of this.
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Where is it all going to end?
Hey waydaminut...This could work for me.
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Sounds more like they are harvesting addresses than really a 'service' for sending e-mails. Only a million for the US?! Not much too brag about IMHO. And twice that many in Canada? Aren't there a few more people South of that border? How come they don't have 20 times the number of Canadian addresses in the US of A? Something is fishy, if you ask me.
Jim C.
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Saw something recently where people tried to respond to Spam.
With a large amount, 80-90%, they couldn't get a response.
As far as they could tell, the only reason for a lot of SPAM
was to harvest viable e-mail responses to sell to other SPAMMERS.
Not to sell any real product or service.
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I got 10 Spams this morning-everything from Viagra to home mortgages to How to make $1,000,000.
I'm really getting tired hitting that delete button!
Let's see....I take the Viagra, refinance my home, then make a million.........Nah!
[ 03-04-2003, 03:01 PM: Message edited by: Gary S ]
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I really don't know anything about how spamming works, but I sure know that I am disgusted with it. I got a nasty one this morning, and stuck the last number from the header( I guess you take the last one?), into here,
http://www.spews.org/check.html just to see where it came from. It looked as if it had been 'around the world in 80 days' before I got it!
My ISP is supposed to be filtering these out, and we get many fewer than before, but it is the porn-spam that I hate intensly. Delete, delete, delete,,,,,,,,,
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Gary,
You're not really having to use a delete button on those things are you? You're just pullin our leg(s), right? I mean, you do have filters set up to dump that stuff to the 'trash' in whatever e-mail client you are using, right? Then it should be no more than a single click or a single menu command to dump them all at once.
Or a program like POPmonitor could be blocking them from ever getting to your client (I leave it running in the background all the time. It's one of only two programs I have in my StartUp Folder, it's that important to me.).
I just don't trust or care to let some ISP decide what I don't want, I know they don't care about how they do it as much as I do. I seldom get SPAM from any address more than once after I set up a filter for it.
Jim C.
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Jim, I use Spamfire in OS9. It does a pretty good job. I don't really know if I could have gotten Communicator 4.77 to do the job for me. Spamfire is easy. It comes with the filters already configured. You can "rescue" any message, and add any sender to the approved list. Lately, I've noticed a reduction in spam. I only empty my spam when the window starts to fill up. Haven't done that in weeks.
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Enjoying the snow Snuffy?
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ABD,
I'm using Netscape 7.01 as my email client. How would I go about setting up filters? I went to my Charter site where I can view my email before downloading it and they have a box for filters. I'm going to give them a call.
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Sorry, don't use (any more) or know anything about NS. I do have the book that came with it and it does talk about how to create filters. Look in the 'Mail' window and pull down the 'Tools' menu and choose 'Message Filters.' Since I don't have it installed, I assume you can tell the filter to send the stuff to the 'Trash' folder. If this is similar to Eudora, the Trash is really just like any user-created folder with the big exception that there is a menu command that will allow you to really delete everything in it. One command, no individual delete commands for each message, all at once, all or nothing.
I like POPmonitor because it is running all the time and I can check it occasionally to see what's there, especially if I'm looking for a particular response. Plus, I can tell it to 'Block' messages and I will never even retrieve them when I use Eudora (or whatever client I might use) to actually download messages.
Since I use a separate e-mail program, I don'tt worry about accidentally/automatically downloading e-mail while I am surfing. It's just my way of doing things. You can certainly do it differently (even if my way [b[is[/b] better! )
Jim C.
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quote:
Originally posted by kelly:
Enjoying the snow Snuffy?
The Jeep is white from the @%&$! salt on the roads. Glad my vehicle is already rust colored.
...but running around trying to get stuck is taking too much time away from the two boards I frequent...TS and drawing.
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ABD,
By golly I found it under tools! Thanks!
Now I have to figure out how it works.
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Seems to me SPAM is easily avoidable, if your willing to have an address that isn't SPAM friendly.
I don't get SPAM (unless you count the comments from TSrs that disagree with me). My eaddress is sufficiently lengthly as to not be subject to "web crawler" stuff.
My wife's (dmn3@whatever.net) is not.
She not only knows how to lower our mortgage rate, while starting a risk-free business from home and investing any left over savings in a AAAA secured investment; she has an opportunity to start a new career as a (fill in the blank).
I wouldn't mind all this this so much if (her mail) didn't always suggest that (my male) was insufficient to the task at hand. (hehe).
Anyway; she gets 20-40 SPAMS daily. I get none. Hey waitaminnut, maybe she's startin' to belive this s.........
Think I'll head this off at the pass. Gotta' go, cya.
[ 03-07-2003, 07:19 AM: Message edited by: RogerF ]