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36498	2002-02-21 04:32:00	Hi, I sent an email to myself from my pop3 account to my hotmail account... A great deal of the spam that frequents the trash can in my hotmail, are now being sent to me... I presume the spammers do this by way of a transparent .gif... Or something similar... If you can even write to someone without collecting their spam, is email doomed to recession? Dear oh dear... Any ideas how to get rid of this? No luck with the unsubscribe, the addresses change regularly... As a word of warning, never write to a hotmail account, as you can collect their spam. I say hotmail, although of course it could possibly happen with another webmail client, but hotmail is a spamZone... :( Erin	Guest (0)
36499	2002-02-21 05:15:00	There is no way in the mail protocols that the address from which you send an email can get to outsiders. One way to collect addresses of mail senders would be to run a main routing node or backbone section. Or, like Microsoft, run hotmail.com . Lists of addresses would add to their income stream. The crooked people (US Governemt, NZ SIS, Aust SIS, British SIS) running the Echelon snooping system could be selling addresses, I suppose. We should shut down that Waihopai satellite station anyway. Microsoft, too? Paranoia, anyone?	Guest (0)
36500	2002-02-21 05:19:00	Graham, I am sure you are somehow incorrect here... I have never recieved any spam in my paradise accounts, and then after sending a message to my hotmail account, I had three which were identical to the most recent three in my bhotmail inbox... They MUST have got my address, it is WAY too big a coincidence otherwise... :) Erin	Guest (0)
36501	2002-02-21 08:33:00	In a book I read it was recommended that people avoid using Hotmail and Yahoo mail for e-mail accounts because both use cookies whereas apparently most other e-mail progs don't. It seems that the use of cookies makes them open to hacking or something and hence they are in some way vulnerable to use by spammers. I have had a Eudora account for about 12 months and have had fewer than 10 spams in that time. However, please don't everybody rush off and join Eudora because if too many subscribe it may also become an attractive target for spammers!	Guest (0)
36502	2002-02-21 11:27:00	Hi, No Joke about the Waihopi letter, but unfortunately it was over a year ago... Maybe I should get PGP back again, and see what happens... :) Erin	Guest (0)
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