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El Pirata

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Has anyone noticed their mailboxes getting filled with spam? I just checked one of my accounts that I kind of stopped using because I was getting too much spam and low and behold I had 1253 pieces of spam mail in a month. WTF!!! I hope the bastards who send that crap fry in hell!
 
spam? never seen the stuff.















it is a worldwide epidemic.....................:constipat
 
I found out how to fix it. I just filled my inbox with a shitload of pics I sent to myself. I think there's about 2kb of space left in my inbox now.
 
Whats the point to that? Now you have no space to ecive emails anyway. If it is a spammed account, just delete it.

Never give email address to a website, that helps a great deal, ur email gets passed from place to place and thats how the list builds up. If your a AOL user. Stay out of public chats. AOL is now really realy god about spam, i have no spam controls set and have only recieved about 5 spam mails this month.
 
Ever snice they did the do not call list they turned to emails. I heard there was a do not spam list coming out. (Not sure if it is true or not. Never followed up on it)
 
Originally posted by Waste Land
Whats the point to that? Now you have no space to ecive emails anyway. If it is a spammed account, just delete it.

Never give email address to a website, that helps a great deal, ur email gets passed from place to place and thats how the list builds up. If your a AOL user. Stay out of public chats. AOL is now really realy god about spam, i have no spam controls set and have only recieved about 5 spam mails this month.
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5 spam mails in 2 days is not that good of a record.
 
Maybe one of your buddies gave out your email. HAHA, I purposely gave out one of my friends as a joke. A month or so later I casually brought up the subject of junk email and he was telling me about all the " male enhancing" ads he's been getting recently.

I wouldn't use your permanent email for anything other than personal communication. I use my hotmail account if I ever have to give out an email. And when I do get junk, I report and block all SPAM in my hotmail account. That works pretty good.
 
Believe me, I already found that one out but it's amazing that an e-mail that I have given out to no one is receiving spam mail too.
 
ISP spam filters are crap. My ISP is cox, and both emails get tons of spam (one account had 8 pages of it this morning). On the other hand, my hosted webspace email account gets none. I am also running a filter called spam assassin on those emails. It's a serverside filter that has user configurable black and white lists. So far (over a year of having this setup), I receive zero spam emails on nearly 8 email accounts on my site. I have received about 10 emails that I might consider spam, since the sender was a cold contact, but it was addressed to me.

Also, the point of not using email addresses on questionable websites is very true. If I have to do this, I either give one of the Cox emails, or set up a new email just for that purpose.

On dialup, I would have to say that AT&T Worldnet had a very good filter, but that was over 4 years ago when I had that.
 
That's what a mailbox is supposed to look like!
spam.JPG
 
Sometimes I just let the mailboxes fill up with spam. Don't delete them. Remember, it's the ISP server that has to hold that crap, and maybe if everyone lets the crap pile up then the ISP will start to take greater pains in preventing spam from getting in. Yahoo deleted my account because I did this, but that was a free account, so screw 'em.
 
I have the newest version of Microsoft Outlook and it has a built in spam filter that seems to catch quite a bit of spam that comes into my account. I have a bunch of Pop3 email accounts I use with my various websites, so the filter works for all of them at the same time.

sLY
 
I still say that better server side filters would do a world of good. Why is it that if I send out an email with one character in the address wrong, I get a "mail undeliverable" server reply, but just about every spam mail has nothing in the to field that remotle resembles my address? Sure, Outlook has a rule feature that says "if it's not addressed directly to me, then..." but that's on the client side. It would probably kill most of the spammers right off the bat to have millions of returned emails show up because the to field doesn't have good info. I'm not going to get on some high horse and dis MS, but if they friggin fixed their crap then maybe spam wouldn't be so prevelant.
 
If you have a @aol.com @charter.net @earthlink @yahoo, or @msn You're screwed for mail.

They realize that every name in the book is being used on all those servers. So they have a huge text file with every name for a person known to man. They generate a mailing list from scracth they don't have to have your address to get it. Spam prograams mail out but don;t recieve mail they dont have to worry about bounced mail

The betst bet is to by yur own domain for $14.95 a year, and use that email addy from personal stuff. I have gotten two spam emails in three years. I use my @hotmail.com for any site I am worrried might give out my info. Once your on the list, you might as well ditch that adress you'll get thousands.
 
Originally posted by msly
I have the newest version of Microsoft Outlook and it has a built in spam filter that seems to catch quite a bit of spam that comes into my account. I have a bunch of Pop3 email accounts I use with my various websites, so the filter works for all of them at the same time.

sLY
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2003 Outlook is the best version yet, I love it.
 
I dunno about all of you but earthlink takes care of my stuff via spam blocker. I just set it to the highest setting so that only those who are in my address book get through. Then there's the known spam folder and the suspected spam folder.Either way, the folders are self cleaning after a few days.

Those that send email to me who are suspected spam are sent an auto reply stating that if they want to be added to my address book they have to send a request via the accompanied response email address.

Works for me and no spam.
 
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