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| Thread ID: 66179 | 2006-02-14 02:11:00 | Spam & more spam | Poppa John (284) | Press F1 |
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| 430195 | 2006-02-15 11:07:00 | Some businesses use a program, that questions the email sender confirming that you did indeed send an email, before allowing it to go through. (I hope thats clear). But I dont know what that program is. Would be great for spam, and just slighlty annoying for the originator of a genuine emal. Any idea what that program is? ChoiceMail can do this... I disabled it actually as I didn't want to annoy non spammers. |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 430196 | 2006-02-15 22:50:00 | No . The spam is like a giant cowpat outside your door that gets renewed several times a day . However you choose to enter the door, it gets on your shoes, changing email program is simply changing shoes . You need to change the address you live at (which is changing your email address), to one with no giant cowpat on the doorstep . But then it comes back to how the cowpat got there, as your email address (the @ xtra one I assume is the problem) is not an "easily guessed" one so its been left somewhere it should not have been at some stage and has been harvested . Once harvested it does not usually improve, though the cowpat thickness may vary at times . I suspect that having ones email address in long lists of others on "mailing lists" can be a problem, as if any of the recipients in the list is infected with malware the lists can be harvested . If anyone ever sends me something where my email is in a large list (and therefore not using BCC : ) they get a visit from "the boys", with a black and decker drill for a little job on their kneecaps . They never do it again . GF . . . . . . Yes it is the Xtra addy at the moment . We are 'Aware" One of the things we are trying to stop is friends using "Multiple Address" send outs . I contacted Xtra help desk about Spam & They said there was a Global Spike in spam at the moment . Their spam team were working hard to contain it, it was important to send all spam to the xtra Spamreport@ . Xtra is our main ISP . I have spken to Orcon & they have put us on a Higher level of their antispam . I dont get much spam from them anyway, nor Google for that matter . On xtra, I dont know if the spam is attracted by our 'username' (which you know) or the xtra ISP . PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 430197 | 2006-02-17 10:36:00 | Hi Poppa John, As Godfather mentioned, you can changed your email address or as an alternative you can change your username. Changing your username isn't something to do lightly though as it is quite disruptive. When you change your username your current email account is deleted and a new one is created and it can take a couple of working days to do. It basically means that you are without email for a while and obviously your email address changes. Needless to say, doing this is quite pointless unless you change some of the things you do online. Some people I have chatted to supposedly get 20-60 spam a day with their spam filter set to delete! I used to get that number before the enabling the xtra filter, but now only get about three or four a day. Probably the easiest way to combat it is to download your email on a daily basis. Then it doesn't seem to be as many! Cheers |
Simply_Si (354) | ||
| 430198 | 2006-02-17 21:16:00 | Thanks All. There is no easy & complete answer. I guess we will have to live with it.We have taken note of those suggestions that we were not doing, & are doing now. We don't visit, knowingly, the 'bad' sites. At the moment it is only an Xtra problem. Thanks agin. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 430199 | 2006-02-17 21:21:00 | i also found out that some of my approved email contacts don't realize that their message is recognize as spam... | Mr Wetzyl (362) | ||
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