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Post by Jaga on Jul 26, 2007 22:24:28 GMT -7
It seems that SPAM is becoming a huge problem for mail traffic. I receive really tens if not hundreds of spam messages per day since all e-mails from my website are forwarded to my private address.
It is becoming a big problem. Sometimes the e-mails from my family members end up in the junkmail box... but I do not check it regularly so I bet that some e-mails are just lost.
I have problems to send the newsletter because .... it is seen as a spam. Also less people signed to receive a newsletter than before probably due to the fact that they receive so much mail.
My mailbox have two different anti-spam phases, still I have to clean it up quite frequently. It is just getting more and more frustrated.
Did you notice that the same types of messages repeat each other continuously. Now, there is a time for being a winner - Bob was writing about it.
Do we have any cure against spam?
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Post by leslie on Jul 27, 2007 1:54:42 GMT -7
Jaga Most servers, AOL certainly, have a box where, when you have selected an incoming email you can select 'This is spam' - the email is then sent into the spam box and you should receive no more emails from that address. You still have to clear out your spam box every so often. The alternative, which is almost impossible, is to list the only addresses you will receive email from - this means you have to keep this list forever up to date as new, acceptable senders appear. Perhaps members with other servers have different methods. Leslie
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Post by rdywenur on Jul 27, 2007 3:44:35 GMT -7
Jaga, I use my AOL account as my main email. Recently there has been a new reserge of spam mail. They are getting even more clever now. There is no way of getting around it. Even tv show hosts are joking about it so they must all be having the same problems. On AOL I have a spam filter that usually catches most spam. Occassionally good email gets in their so I must look through it before deleting it all. Same for my regular email which the spam filter did not catch because they are becomming more clever in their form of sending. The more places and things you do on line the more chances of creating a new "friend". You having this open non registered topic also invites more spammers. On my other server my Norton's is pretty good at catching my spam.
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Post by bescheid on Jul 27, 2007 6:05:22 GMT -7
I was quite taken by surprise of the problem experienced by your self and others of an increase of spam. I was not aware of this problem until now.
I am not sure what I am doing that is good, other then this is my work computer, but so far, the spam problem has not hit me....
I do have a side provider address that every so often I do check, and it is filled with some very strange messages. usually of 7-8 pages, then in mass, I delete them. Not for sure if the provider has automated count/delete as in all probability, I am wasting my time.
Or perhaps the spam people do not want to wast their time on an old fish head enjoying a boiled cabbage/Herring sandwich.
Charles
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Post by bescheid on Jul 27, 2007 6:19:42 GMT -7
up date upon previous post:
For got to mention of a recent notification of an arrest of a Spam King.
Adam Vitale, a junk mail millionaire, was arrested and charged with multiple counts of violating the CAN-SPAM Act. the arrest was accomplished by the US Department of The Secret Service. Him self {Vitale} and a co-defendant {Todd Moeller} had designed a programme of by-passing the AOL filtering system and were accomplished in flooding the inboxes of more then 1.27 million AOL e-mail addresses.
Sourced {www.sourcemagazine.com} this is an American computer magazine published on a monthly basis. Article was gained from {publication: Juli issue of 2007}
Charles
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Post by suzanne on Jul 31, 2007 6:53:10 GMT -7
I have a Hotmail account as my main email address, and it does a pretty good job of filtering out junk.
I also have a separate, "junk" email account that I use when I'm required to give out my email address for something (like to register to be able to read articles at a free online newspaper website) - that junk address collects a lot of ads and spam that would otherwise clog my real email.
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Post by Bob S on Jul 31, 2007 11:37:55 GMT -7
;D Let them eat SPAM! Their country is producing enough of it. ;D LOL
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Post by justjohn on Aug 1, 2007 3:41:24 GMT -7
2 cans of it last week.
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Post by Jaga on Aug 1, 2007 8:07:36 GMT -7
The problem is that my own internet provider does not sometimes to allow me to send the newsletter because it treats it as spam.
Leslie, I know I should have the option to select which emails are spam but somehow in my e-mail options I cannot find a right way to fix it. I do not have AOL, but even my friends had trouble to receive my e-mails, even if they mark my e-mail address as not spam, so I am not sure it always works so well.
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Post by leslie on Aug 1, 2007 9:04:54 GMT -7
John I thought SPAM as something edible was only a wartime necessity - I seem to remember that in UK. I can't remember when I last ate SPAM - it must have been a long time ago. Don't tell me you can still buy it?! (AND EAT IT!!!) Leslie
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Post by suzanne on Aug 1, 2007 10:32:30 GMT -7
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Post by bescheid on Aug 1, 2007 12:53:23 GMT -7
Suzanne and Leslie
Since now we are speaking of some thing to eat....Spam a pork lunchen meat, I like it...I would only suppose it is to the individual taste. I really do not like to cook and as so, at home {Cuxhaven} with my food budget, it would include a tin of Spam for sandwiches. This was to also create a bit of variety with other mid-day meals {Mittag Mahlzeit} other then cold Herring layered between cold boiled cabbage {Kohl}. It taste best with grey bread.
I was pleasantly surprised of the abundance of spam {Hormel} in Canada, but, a lack of grey bread.
In the states, you may purchase any thing, just keep looking if not found on the 1st try. Except, grey bread. Americans seem to have an affinity to mushy white/brown bread.
Charles
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Post by justjohn on Aug 1, 2007 13:46:42 GMT -7
Suzanne and Leslie, The last time I had Spam I was in the service. My daughter Jamie, from Hawaii, brought a volume of recipes for Spam as it is a very popular food there. While here she prepareed some and I must admit it was very good.
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Post by justjohn on Aug 1, 2007 13:50:32 GMT -7
Charles,
What is gray bread ?
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Post by bescheid on Aug 1, 2007 16:19:42 GMT -7
Charles, What is gray bread ? J.J. Grey Bread {graubrot} is a medium rye bread. The American bread, seems so light and thin, although seems to have similar ingredients, also is sliced very thin. Charles
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