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sick of junk mail?
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LaMan said on October 20, 2003 22:49:
I have over 1100 spams on one of my e-mail boxes.
More I delete them more they send them.
I gave up.
TheRain1981 said on October 21, 2003 04:52:
Hmmm...I don’t seem to have a problem with junk mail. I use www.roxette.org mail, by the way.
kiwijazza said on October 21, 2003 05:40:
I’ve heard that opening them is enough to tell the rotten S.O.B’s that send them, to send more. I wish I could track them down...oh the possibilities if I did... ;)
xuxa said on October 21, 2003 12:52:
@LaMan: I have exactly the same problem with one of my e-mail boxes :s I never open them, I just delete it. But everyday is the same thing. I guess there is nothing I can do about it. I think what we have to do is to stop use that e-mail account.
Denstandigaresan said on October 21, 2003 14:07:
When I enter comps etc, I always put my hotmail address... because terms is that they send you third party mails etc... and hotmail, i’ve got delete all junk mail set. :D
AOL is good, they’ve got a report spam button... not that I get much. :D
harriej said on October 21, 2003 20:54:
Usually it is possible in your e-mailprogramme to block e-mailadresses from which you receive spam.
Jud (moderator) said on October 21, 2003 23:15:
mm I did something with one of my yahoo email addresses that I don’t use anymore or at least not so often: I let the inbox get FULL to the limit, so when an email was sent to that email address an error mail was sent back to the sender with the typical message “inbox is full” bla bla.
After a while I deleted all the emails/crap from the inbox and waited a couple of days.. tada! Spam was (almost) over.. these companies that sell the email addresses or that send spam normally delete the addresses from where they have got an error = that are not valid anymore or full or whatever from their databases.
I did this a while ago, I don’t know if this works with every spammer, but well.. if you can allow yourself to let your inbox be full for a while and have the system send error mails back.. it may be worth a try :)
I also read somewhere (lost the URL) another tip against spam.. similar to this above but manual and more time consuming:
Write a typical error message saying the address doesn’t exist, recipient not found or similar and save it as a .txt so you have it at hand.
Then in outlook create a mail account where it should say as name sth like “mail administrator” or similar, as address something like [email protected] and mail servers.. your mail servers.
Then each time you get a spam mail reply to it from this account, with the subject sth like “your mail could not be delivered” and the .txt copied in the body..
Since these spammers have a computer set to send their thousand emails for example during a whole day, they cannot really check when the email to your account was sent and when “your server” sent that error email.. they just get an error message and think the address doesn’t exist anymore so they delete it from their databases.
good luck!!!
Jud (moderator) said on October 21, 2003 23:17:
adding to this, I think you can set some filters in outlook (or outlook express) to send an email with whatever attached file or text whenever you receive an email from the addresses you have in the filter/blocked, but never tried that ..
zeeshan said on October 22, 2003 05:56:
You guys should try MAILWASHER. It is a nice little app which does it all for you. Search it on Google or www.download.com and try it. It is good.
Z
MiracleMan said on October 20, 2003 22:58:
A friend of mine gets a lot of the male-member enlargement spam, but she says she really doesn’t need it.
I must have an amazing filtering system, because I seldom get ANY spam, and if there’s anything questionable, it sequesters the mail until I decide if I want it or not. I get a message once or twice a month that it’s there, otherwise nothing.