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Lots of spam lately... - 11/1/2008 10:21:13 AM   
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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/1/2008 1:06:53 PM   
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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/1/2008 1:24:54 PM   
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Virtually none is getting through, excepting stuff that I subscribe to, Newegg, Mwave, Amazon, and so on.

Erik, you're at a disadvantage in this regard because your email is public.

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/1/2008 1:29:01 PM   
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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/1/2008 1:34:58 PM   
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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/1/2008 2:14:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Terminus

I meant spambot attacks on the forum.

Actually, Matrix appears to be doing a pretty good job in this regard. One of the developer forums that I visit from time to time, has it a LOT worse. In fact about two-thirds of its MEMBERS are spam generated!

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/1/2008 2:22:28 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Oh, don't even get me started regarding the amount of spam that appears in my inbox every day and every pre-fetch filtering solution I've tried ends up eventually grabbing some unexpected important e-mail and causing me real problems.

Work email can be a tough deal. Away from home, I have to use Lotus Notes a lot, and the email administrator uses a proggy called Postini to filter out spam (to the tune of 500-600 messages per week). The problem with the filter is that it also quarantines legit emails from different commercial concerns. So, I still have to carefully go through my "junk-mail" folder, periodically, and I'm not a helluva lot better off than I'd be if there were NO filter at all.

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/1/2008 6:53:23 PM   
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I feel for you, one of my Yahoo email accounts get's that much spam.

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/1/2008 9:25:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Same issue with me, Grell. My regular use account on Gmail seems to do a pretty good job of filtering out the spam on it's own, but my Yahoo Mail account...every bloody day I've got 6 offers of tons of money from Burkina Faso, and, lately, several claiming I have somehow managed to win British lotteries and UN grants.

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/1/2008 9:54:09 PM   
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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/1/2008 10:23:26 PM   
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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/2/2008 1:37:20 AM   
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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/2/2008 4:55:22 AM   
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ORIGINAL: NefariousKoel

You angry no afford big ship?  You buy gold www.yubaigoldroundeye.com 

Quick deliver!

LOL

I like Spam - usually diced, with Macaroni & Cheese - good stuff.

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/2/2008 12:41:59 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Arctic Blast

Same issue with me, Grell. My regular use account on Gmail seems to do a pretty good job of filtering out the spam on it's own, but my Yahoo Mail account...every bloody day I've got 6 offers of tons of money from Burkina Faso, and, lately, several claiming I have somehow managed to win British lotteries and UN grants.


Heh, If I cashed in my UN grant money I "won" I could be very very comfortably well off.

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/2/2008 1:12:58 PM   
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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/2/2008 11:16:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		Don't delete the spam you get at work. Don't open it either. Just move it to a personal folder and leave it. You'll find the spam will cease. And who ever is selling the list with your addy on it will have it removed as a dead address. Worked for me.

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/2/2008 11:51:48 PM   
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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/3/2008 4:15:49 AM   
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ORIGINAL: gunny

Don't delete the spam you get at work. Don't open it either. Just move it to a personal folder and leave it. You'll find the spam will cease. And who ever is selling the list with your addy on it will have it removed as a dead address. Worked for me.

Actually, that may be what's happening. Once a week, I get a notification to login to a "junkmail" folder. I do so, so that I can view the flotsam and jetsom, therein. After I've recovered/restored anything of value, I exit, and Postini takes it from there. I don't know if the virtual mountain of spam is archived, or not.

PoE (aka ivanmoe)

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/5/2008 5:18:52 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Junkmail Folder

FDA Approved Medications: $1.12/pill forViagra, $1.96/pill forCializ & many others

Now wait! This is OBVIOUSLY important as it came from THREE different "people."

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ORIGINAL: Junkmail Folder

BAD economy? Low salary? Buy an University Dip1oma/Bacheelor from us, No Study/Exam needed


This is very topical... not only can I buy something because I have a low salary (and no money right?) but I can learn to spelt juzt liike peeple with "Bacheelor" degreeze.

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ORIGINAL: Junkmail Folder

Boost your sexual power


Okay, this one is a little worrisome... how do they know?!?!?

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a $12000 watch, we sell at $200, Quality watches at only 10% cost of Real Watches Price


I really need a $12000 watch... so I can see EXACTLY how long the computer is taking in Operational Art of War. I wonder if it's self-winding?

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ORIGINAL: Junkmail Folder

Wow check out this huge enlargement patch sale!


Enlargment patch? Hmmm, I wonder what they mean?

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ORIGINAL: Junkmail Folder

slot machines for the home


Okay! Now we're talking! If I win, I can afford a "Bacheleers" degree AND a $12000 watch AND a big something or other! Ummm... if I win, do I have to pay myself? Okay, maybe we're not talking now.






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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/5/2008 1:50:48 PM   
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ORIGINAL: E

Boost your sexual power

Okay, this one is a little worrisome... how do they know?!?!?


Because your mind is always the second thing to go!

PoE (aka ivanmoe)

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/5/2008 2:26:29 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl
Because your mind is always the second thing to go!


After the second thing is gone, how would you remember the first ?

Seriously : I don't get it - what I mean is that spam for me is 5-10 messages each day on my hotmail account I've been using for a decade on every forum to register, every newslist to subscribe to, every sign-up, etc, and on which there's no filter that I'm aware off. In other words : you couldn't get a more public and open address if you tried. A google search on it turns up 1500 hits. Yet the spam is minimal and clicking those 10 checkboxes and hitting the <spam> button takes me about 2 seconds each day. A small price to pay to make sure no important mails are ever accidentely filtered out.

So, here's one satisfied customer of web-based mail-addresses where all the junk remains on the M$ servers and is not send through to my computer.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/5/2008 4:54:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hotmail has huge spam filters, and you're gettting as much as we do. Maybe they've taken away your right to peruse the spam folder, or your wishful thinking at not seing that folder is working ? ;)
e.g with Gmail, you still see the vast amounts of spam that hit every ISP and webmail providers out there.
How much you get in your inbox is in direct proportion to their filter's aggressivity.


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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/5/2008 5:02:29 PM   
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ORIGINAL: noxious
Hotmail has huge spam filters, and you're gettting as much as we do. Maybe they've taken away your right to peruse the spam folder, or your wishful thinking at not seing that folder is working ? ;)


Well, I just checked my Hotmail "Junk" folder and it's empty ... again - maybe they've maxed-out the filters for me but when I subscribe to a newsletter or order stuff from a website the confirmation mail never seems to get lost.

In other words : for all practical purposes, spam for me is an OPP - an other people's problem - and the only correct advice I can give based on my findings is : get yourself a Hotmail account - got mine a decade ago and I'm still using it daily.

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/6/2008 6:30:11 PM   
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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/6/2008 10:33:46 PM   
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Just do what I do: don't rea your emails..Use the phone instead.

LOL, but that would entail some sort of personal >GASP!< contact.

"So, Howitzer, how goes it? Btw, what's your real name?"

...click...

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RE: Lots of spam lately... - 11/6/2008 10:50:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

OK, I'll bite; why not just delete it unread ?



Spam sends out read replies if opened and a similar tag if it is deleted, therefore the recipient is still active.

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