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Subject: Take THAT, you spamming vermin!
Ant
i-spam ban may soon become law
Yeah! :D
Subject: Re: Take THAT, you spamming vermin!
This is a great step to ending spam.
However, considering the spammers have been able to bypass all the filtering technology services so far, I'm not convinced even the threat of prison time will stop them.
"Where there's a will there's a way".
I currently have 2 major anti-spam filters in place, and still get way too many every day. I don't think any law will stop them.
Subject: Re: Take THAT, you spamming vermin!
Good show. I see telemarketing and spamming as one and the same. Unfortunately, spammers will move most of their operations (as many do) to servers in China where they are untouchable.
There is a website ( www.spamarchives.com ) that was soliciting spam that you may have received so that they can do a comphrensive study on the matter so that effective spam filtering can be developed. I don't know if they are still doing it.
As for spam, i've rarely gotten any. My e-mail address supplied to me by my school has a spam filter and I have noticed that it filtered out 3 spam messages in the past two days. Other than that, I haven't had anything except for internally generated messages by my own ISP that was non-commercial in nature. The same with snail-mail, I hardly get any targeted junk mail, except by my bank or banks offering to extend consumer debt. :P
But then, I surf safe as they call it. http://g-darkfaqs.cjb.net/
Subject: Re: Take THAT, you spamming vermin!
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As for spam, i've rarely gotten any. My e-mail address supplied to me by my school has a spam filter and I have noticed that it filtered out 3 spam messages in the past two days. Other than that, I haven't had anything except for internally generated messages by my own ISP that was non-commercial in nature. End Quote
Ugh. At one point, I was getting nearly 60 spam emails/day. :P And don;t ask me how because I never gave my address out to any site.
The filters have cut it down somewhat, but not enough as far as I'm concerned.
Subject: Re: Take THAT, you spamming vermin!
I hope it is passed!
Subject: Re: Take THAT, you spamming vermin!
Do any of you people have MailWasher? It's not as automatic as some spam stoppers, but I have it and find it very helpful.
Subject: Re: Take THAT, you spamming vermin!
I'm happy! ;D
Howard
Subject: Re: Take THAT, you spamming vermin!
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Ugh. At one point, I was getting nearly 60 spam emails/day. :P And don;t ask me how because I never gave my address out to any site.
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Sometimes "spider" programs, or "bots" scan the Internet looking for e-mail addresses. I used to post regularly on an open BBS, until I became a virus target every friday afternoon. I would receive two infected e-mails 6 minutes apart. It went on for weeks until I analyzed how they were addressing it and I only posted that e-mail address at one spot. So instead of an e-mail format like "Secret_Squirrell@abc123.ca" I would alter it to "Secret_Squirrell@<nospam>abc123.ca" or "..@abc123.caa" Adding that extra "a" seems to work quite nicely.
Another problem, are spyware programs similar to viruses that collect e-mail addresses from your address book and sends it "back home" to add to a database.
Sometime, Google your e-mail address and see what pops up. Another problem, some websites require an e-mail address to register, promise not to give it out, then turn around and sell it to some national database. I had this problem with Microsoft Hotmail and Yahoo. >:( But I found ways around that... ;)
Subject: Re: Take THAT, you spamming vermin!
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Sometimes "spider" programs, or "bots" scan the Internet looking for e-mail addresses. I used to post regularly on an open BBS, until I became a virus target every friday afternoon. I would receive two infected e-mails 6 minutes apart. It went on for weeks until I analyzed how they were addressing it and I only posted that e-mail address at one spot. So instead of an e-mail format like "Secret_Squirrell@abc123.ca" I would alter it to "Secret_Squirrell@<nospam>abc123.ca" or "..@abc123.caa" Adding that extra "a" seems to work quite nicely.
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This is one of the reasons I encourage people to keep their email private on this board. If you get spam from an account you use only here, it isn't from anything I did, I haven't sent out multiple email to anyone since I ended my briefly run newsletter five years ago. No system announcements, etc. just the "notify of replies" thingy.
Subject: Re: Take THAT, you spamming vermin!
I'm not sure if it's a result of the recent regulations by the government or not, but amazingly, in the last few days my spam content has dropped by nearly 60%.
...and thats a good thing. :)