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I've just started getting spam in the last couple of days. It's like my email address had just been discovered. Aaah well. I think I can manage 10 or so spam emails a day, compared to 1 or 2 legitimate emails :doh:. I'm probably getting off pretty light compared to some people, and I'm happy to have lasted this long without getting any spam, but it's still very very annoying :mad: :sigh:
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
I started a new web site not long ago and made the mistake of including an e-mail address on the home page. Within 2 days of site launch, I started getting a light trickling of spam. My current Junk folder contains over 6000 spam messages. Live by the 28 Days Later motto - once you're infected, kill it.
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Ryan Binns wrote: but it's still very very annoying Wait, till you must spend 1/2 an hour each day waiting for Outlook (or whatever) to download the thousands of spams you collected over night. I jest not, it starts with just a few, and only ever increases not decreases. Regardz Colin J Davies Attention: Watch this signature for an upcoming announcement that will affect you.
ColinDavies wrote: Wait, till you must spend 1/2 an hour each day waiting for Outlook (or whatever) to download the thousands of spams you collected over night. I jest not, it starts with just a few, and only ever increases not decreases. :sigh: Although hopefully it won't be quite that bad - I've got server-side spam filtering.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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I started a new web site not long ago and made the mistake of including an e-mail address on the home page. Within 2 days of site launch, I started getting a light trickling of spam. My current Junk folder contains over 6000 spam messages. Live by the 28 Days Later motto - once you're infected, kill it.
Jack Rabbit wrote: started a new web site not long ago and made the mistake of including an e-mail address on the home page. I've never posted my email address anywhere. The only people that get it are people I send emails to, or people who get responses to CP posts.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Jack Rabbit wrote: started a new web site not long ago and made the mistake of including an e-mail address on the home page. I've never posted my email address anywhere. The only people that get it are people I send emails to, or people who get responses to CP posts.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Ryan Binns wrote: I've never posted my email address anywhere. The only people that get it are people I send emails to, or people who get responses to CP posts. I had an e-mail address that I didn't give out that stayed clean for months, maybe a year, then it started getting spam. It was a test account that I had forgotten to delete after I was done using it; never used it for anything. The only solution I could come up with was it was found via a brute force attack, as mentioned in the following article: http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml The address was dummy@myisp.blah, so I figured it would be a logical "guess" choice for a spammer. I imagine most ISPs have some type of blocking feature setup to prevent this type of thing from happening nowadays. BTW, I've never understood why CP posts users e-mail addresses in their reply messages. Just opens the door up for more trouble.
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Ryan Binns wrote: I've never posted my email address anywhere. The only people that get it are people I send emails to, or people who get responses to CP posts. I had an e-mail address that I didn't give out that stayed clean for months, maybe a year, then it started getting spam. It was a test account that I had forgotten to delete after I was done using it; never used it for anything. The only solution I could come up with was it was found via a brute force attack, as mentioned in the following article: http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml The address was dummy@myisp.blah, so I figured it would be a logical "guess" choice for a spammer. I imagine most ISPs have some type of blocking feature setup to prevent this type of thing from happening nowadays. BTW, I've never understood why CP posts users e-mail addresses in their reply messages. Just opens the door up for more trouble.
Jack Rabbit wrote: I've never understood why CP posts users e-mail addresses in their reply messages. Just opens the door up for more trouble. I posted a suggestion in the suggestions message board about that this morning...
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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ColinDavies wrote: Wait, till you must spend 1/2 an hour each day waiting for Outlook (or whatever) to download the thousands of spams you collected over night. I jest not, it starts with just a few, and only ever increases not decreases. :sigh: Although hopefully it won't be quite that bad - I've got server-side spam filtering.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Ryan Binns wrote: Although hopefully it won't be quite that bad - I've got server-side spam filtering. So sorry, My ISP filters as well. :-( Regardz Colin J Davies Attention: Watch this signature for an upcoming announcement that will affect you.
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Ryan Binns wrote: Although hopefully it won't be quite that bad - I've got server-side spam filtering. So sorry, My ISP filters as well. :-( Regardz Colin J Davies Attention: Watch this signature for an upcoming announcement that will affect you.
ColinDavies wrote: So sorry, My ISP filters as well. :rolleyes: You're so optimistic aren't you? ;P Since my email address is actually an alias, and the alias provider also does spam blocking, spam has to get through two barriers to get me. Doesn't stop it of course, but might make a difference. I'm not holding my breath, though.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Ryan Binns wrote: but it's still very very annoying Wait, till you must spend 1/2 an hour each day waiting for Outlook (or whatever) to download the thousands of spams you collected over night. I jest not, it starts with just a few, and only ever increases not decreases. Regardz Colin J Davies Attention: Watch this signature for an upcoming announcement that will affect you.
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Jack Rabbit wrote: started a new web site not long ago and made the mistake of including an e-mail address on the home page. I've never posted my email address anywhere. The only people that get it are people I send emails to, or people who get responses to CP posts.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Does everyone keep their mailaddress secret? I have had the same one since 1996 and I used it on usenet and stuff as there was no problems with spam back then. It's also included on diverse sites where some of my software are listed. Today I still give out my mailaddress everywhere, as I refuse to give in to spammers and worry about who see my mailaddress all the time. I get a few hundred spammails each day, but it's not really a problem as my own small company have it's own mailserver with some pretty good spam filtering software on. Before I got the serverside filter, I used spamnet which also works pretty good :) The filter on my server catches something like 95% of all spam, and mark a legimate mail as spam a couple of times each week. Spam is not a big deal for me, I think I use 10 minutes dealing with it each day... - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!" ShotKeeper, my Photo Album / Organizer Application[^]
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Does everyone keep their mailaddress secret? I have had the same one since 1996 and I used it on usenet and stuff as there was no problems with spam back then. It's also included on diverse sites where some of my software are listed. Today I still give out my mailaddress everywhere, as I refuse to give in to spammers and worry about who see my mailaddress all the time. I get a few hundred spammails each day, but it's not really a problem as my own small company have it's own mailserver with some pretty good spam filtering software on. Before I got the serverside filter, I used spamnet which also works pretty good :) The filter on my server catches something like 95% of all spam, and mark a legimate mail as spam a couple of times each week. Spam is not a big deal for me, I think I use 10 minutes dealing with it each day... - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!" ShotKeeper, my Photo Album / Organizer Application[^]
My Photos[^]Anders Molin wrote: Does everyone keep their mailaddress secret? I don't. All my friends have it. I use it on any website I register with (I only have one email address, plus my Hotmail one I don't use except for MSN messenger). What I don't do is display it in a publicy visible place where anyone in the world can see it. Sure it doesn't take long to deal with it once you get them, but on 56k dialup (like mine) it can take a long time to download them all.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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I've just started getting spam in the last couple of days. It's like my email address had just been discovered. Aaah well. I think I can manage 10 or so spam emails a day, compared to 1 or 2 legitimate emails :doh:. I'm probably getting off pretty light compared to some people, and I'm happy to have lasted this long without getting any spam, but it's still very very annoying :mad: :sigh:
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Ryan Binns wrote: but it's still very very annoying Wait, till you must spend 1/2 an hour each day waiting for Outlook (or whatever) to download the thousands of spams you collected over night. I jest not, it starts with just a few, and only ever increases not decreases. Regardz Colin J Davies Attention: Watch this signature for an upcoming announcement that will affect you.
ColinDavies wrote: Wait, till you must spend 1/2 an hour each day If you're using a POP3 server, there are a number of freeware/shareware programs you can choose from that let you inspect the message headers on the server and delete the messages without downloading them to your computer. MailWasher is a good example (sorry, too lazy to Google up the URL myself). I wrote my own (SpamMan) and always run it before telling Outlook to get my messages. It displays a few select fields (sender, subject) in a checked list display. I simply check the ones I want to delete and zap them from the POP3 server. I have an option to preview the message in case I'm not sure, but the preview is plain text, not rendered HTML (when, oh WHEN, will Microsoft add an option to disable HTML rendering in Outlook??? :mad: ) QRZ? de WAØTTN