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| Thread ID: 31387 | 2003-03-20 08:01:00 | Silly Emails from God Knows Where. Are You Getting Them Too? | Pauline (641) | Press F1 |
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| 129640 | 2003-03-20 08:01:00 | Hi Everyone, I have started getting queer emails to my hotmail address. Either they are for university certificates or how to make bigger members. This I copied & pasted from the details. Only trouble is I had to open it first to get to the properties. Usually the spelling is bad in the subject line so I take it that the sender doesn't use English as their first language. Is this Spam or what? Pauline. X-Message-Info: yilqo4+6kc64AXpUCzRAW30W84h6gtv8 Received: from mail.ivavt_cxj.net ([218.50.203.37]) by mc8-f20.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:04:01 -0800 Message-ID: <Idbc9W8P+1Np+qklDjSggDMve9Ks@Vyy82tW29w18Nqt> Subject: FPlease her with a full-sized v unit From: fel@chabanenko.pqw To: (I removed the addresses from here) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 01:10:29 -0200 Content-Type: text/html Return-Path: fel@chabanenko.pqw X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Mar 2003 06:04:02.0218 (UTC) FILETIME=[815DB8A0:01C2EEA6] |
Pauline (641) | ||
| 129641 | 2003-03-20 08:06:00 | this is spam. look in the hotmail options for mail handeling or spam controls set your spam filter to high and see how it work out. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 129642 | 2003-03-20 08:19:00 | >FPlease her with a full-sized v unit :D :D Clasic spam! I get offered pills/vaccuum treatment to grow a bigger "v unit", viagra, pills to give me a bigger "bra size", (but i'm a bloke???), chances to see "a girl and her horse", investmest opertunities, greencards, diplomas, and the chance to help poor unfortunate rich nigerian people regually. Lots stopped when i blocked "anything@msn.com" & "anything@aol.com" This is why i say "use disposible addresses for public posting" Unfortunatly all i can do with current spam to my personal address (my_name@my_domain.co.nz) is ignore it. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 129643 | 2003-03-20 09:36:00 | Hi Clueless For some of us it is not really an option to change email addresses. I have my own domain and would be very upset if I had to relinquish it just to stop Spam. I have found that MailWsher http://www.mailwasher.net/ to be very effective at stopping or at least reducing it to a tiny trickle. >Lots stopped when i blocked anything@msn.com & anything@aol.com This sounds like a good approach. Did you set these filters in Outlook or do you use another email client? Cheers oldfart. |
oldfart (3118) | ||
| 129644 | 2003-03-20 09:53:00 | Yes, I must admit I enjoy bouncing those e-mails using mailwasher. Trouble is that if they have a bit in the e-mail about unsubscribing, don't use it, it only confirms to them that there is someone at the e-mail address they sent it to. By bouncing it, not only does it fill up their inbox, but looks like your e-mail address doesn't exist, so there is more chance that they will take you off their list. I suspect that if the e-mail is not bounced, they hand the list to other spammers. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 129645 | 2003-03-20 10:44:00 | Talking about silly e-mail here are a few (which just got throw my hotmail account)I am getting throw my hotmail account: From: dianne Subject: Never From: Rainy Subject: Call Her From: Pam Subject: You Talk Really Fast The one above is very sick . . . Lets just say . . . Is any one else getting the same?? |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 129646 | 2003-03-20 12:48:00 | oldfart My email client is Kmail, as i use Linux. The filters are easy to set up. It also has a "bounce" facility, not unlike mailwasher, and yes, i too have my own domain.. BTW, i had a look at your website, and realised that i found those cliffs familiar. Public email posting, such as my PF1 profile address goes to an address that i change the moment the spambots get it. Rather than bounce it i let all such spam come in and go directly to the "trash" folder. I figure that does more harm to spammers than letting them know that yet another address in their database is "dead". The big problem i see is that i have to see the email from a new address come in, in order to bounce it in resonable time. I'm working on the therie that if it is a real return address, false bouncing will be detectible by the delay. It's the old problem, any filter that gets rid of all that i don't want, will probably also take out much of what i do want. Its an odd balance. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 129647 | 2003-03-20 13:00:00 | The filters with OE are easy to set up using "message rules". Filtering a domain is just like filtering an individual address, except you just type in the domain name only. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 129648 | 2003-03-20 15:36:00 | I use Pegasus.....takes a little more getting used to, but it has a "Selective mail download" option. Sufficient details of all incoming mail can be examined, before downloading the body of the message, to be able to flick it off the server. It's free at: http://www.pmail.com/ |
brig (1359) | ||
| 129649 | 2003-03-20 20:33:00 | Hi, I do have my filter set to 'exclusive' which is supposed to let 'only addresses on your safe list go into your inbox'. It seems that it isn't doing that. Pauline. |
Pauline (641) | ||
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