Anyone for a rant?

Trimoon

Senior Member
Messages
1,275
Reaction score
0
Location
Silver Springs, FL, US
Wow! All of a sudden I have discovered that I have friends all over the world, and not just so-so friends, but really concerned friends. This past week, my e-mail has been bulging with letters. Some of these people are so concerned that they had to write me and tell me. Several of my new friends think that a certain part of my anatomy is too small. They feel that this will damage my relationships with my wife and mistress and scar me mentally. So, they have made several suggestions to cure the problem at a minimal cost. Who am I to pass up such a bargain? My dilemma is which one should I try first? Should it be the one with the most passionate plea? Or how about the one that will save me the most money? Or should it be the one that gives me the most for my money? If I try them all, I will need a wheelbarrow to get around. I’ve asked my wife what I should do and she just went “humph” and walked away. Anyway, that’s not all that my new friends are offering help in. One is offering a huge discount on Viagra. I didn’t even know that I needed Viagra; but I got it anyway. I take one each night and it keeps me from rolling out of bed. What I want to know is how do they find out about my problems? Who’s been talking? My wife says that she certainly has not. I went over the whole house and I’ve found no cameras. The only other likely culprit would be the cat. I’ve never trusted that cat (ever since we had him neutered). It’s that look that he gives me and I think this might be his revenge. He’s telling everyone about my shortcomings. I should never have listened to my wife and gotten him that AOL account. Late at night, I’m awakened by that irritating sound from the chat rooms. You know the sound – that ding or dong sound that says you have mail.

Some of the e-mail I receive from my new friends tells me that their husband is cheating on them and they want to have an affair with me. This would be cool except for the fact that my wife has this sinister laugh each time she hears the words “John Wayne Bobbit” mentioned. I also get mail from the husbands that say my wife is cheating on me. I just write them back and say that I’m not interested. Most of the time they write back and ask how I know that I’m not interested. Have you ever?

It’s getting to the point that I’m scared to even open my e-mail. You have spyware, adware, hijackers, viruses, worms, porn, women wanting me to call them at $30 a minute, moneylenders with names like Moe, Guido, etc. and pitches for adult toys. Now, this one interested me because I have wanted an erector set since I was a child but we couldn’t afford it. When I e-mailed them inquiring about purchasing one, you would not believe what they sent back. I didn’t buy it because it involved 220 and my wife says I’m not wired for 220.

The ones that really get me are the ones that claim not to be spam. They are unsolicited. I didn’t ask for them. They think they are doing me a favor by offering me something I didn’t even know I need. Obviously, I could not survive without it and they felt it was their obligation, their duty, to inform me that I should get it. I’m sorry, but this is still spam. Anyway, enough of a rant. Goodbye for now. I have to go and check my e-mail.

Steve
--
My PBase gallery
http://www.pbase.com/trimoon
 
Forget about them. I can get you a good deal on Viagra AND an enlargement procedure. Trust me!
Wow! All of a sudden I have discovered that I have friends all over
the world, and not just so-so friends, but really concerned
friends. This past week, my e-mail has been bulging with letters.
Some of these people are so concerned that they had to write me and
tell me. Several of my new friends think that a certain part of my
anatomy is too small. They feel that this will damage my
relationships with my wife and mistress and scar me mentally. So,
they have made several suggestions to cure the problem at a minimal
cost. Who am I to pass up such a bargain? My dilemma is which one
should I try first? Should it be the one with the most passionate
plea? Or how about the one that will save me the most money? Or
should it be the one that gives me the most for my money? If I try
them all, I will need a wheelbarrow to get around. I’ve asked my
wife what I should do and she just went “humph” and walked away.
Anyway, that’s not all that my new friends are offering help in.
One is offering a huge discount on Viagra. I didn’t even know that
I needed Viagra; but I got it anyway. I take one each night and it
keeps me from rolling out of bed. What I want to know is how do
they find out about my problems? Who’s been talking? My wife says
that she certainly has not. I went over the whole house and I’ve
found no cameras. The only other likely culprit would be the cat.
I’ve never trusted that cat (ever since we had him neutered). It’s
that look that he gives me and I think this might be his revenge.
He’s telling everyone about my shortcomings. I should never have
listened to my wife and gotten him that AOL account. Late at night,
I’m awakened by that irritating sound from the chat rooms. You know
the sound – that ding or dong sound that says you have mail.

Some of the e-mail I receive from my new friends tells me that
their husband is cheating on them and they want to have an affair
with me. This would be cool except for the fact that my wife has
this sinister laugh each time she hears the words “John Wayne
Bobbit” mentioned. I also get mail from the husbands that say my
wife is cheating on me. I just write them back and say that I’m not
interested. Most of the time they write back and ask how I know
that I’m not interested. Have you ever?

It’s getting to the point that I’m scared to even open my e-mail.
You have spyware, adware, hijackers, viruses, worms, porn, women
wanting me to call them at $30 a minute, moneylenders with names
like Moe, Guido, etc. and pitches for adult toys. Now, this one
interested me because I have wanted an erector set since I was a
child but we couldn’t afford it. When I e-mailed them inquiring
about purchasing one, you would not believe what they sent back. I
didn’t buy it because it involved 220 and my wife says I’m not
wired for 220.

The ones that really get me are the ones that claim not to be spam.
They are unsolicited. I didn’t ask for them. They think they are
doing me a favor by offering me something I didn’t even know I
need. Obviously, I could not survive without it and they felt it
was their obligation, their duty, to inform me that I should get
it. I’m sorry, but this is still spam. Anyway, enough of a rant.
Goodbye for now. I have to go and check my e-mail.

Steve
--
My PBase gallery
http://www.pbase.com/trimoon
--



Gary Willson
http://willsononline.com
 
I'm so sick of it, and like you, don't need it. I don't have a P _ _ _ _ to take pills for size, I have a mortgage better than they can offer, if my husband cheats, it's his business, not theirs, or mine.....I don't need meds that aren't even prescribed for me, I can fix my own computer, I don't open emails from ISPs named xxyyult75656ls9yutqmgm.net or anything similar, and now I have changed my email address to STOP this insanity. Big Deal. I only use the old email address on the web......don't let it into my OE. BUT, they apparently SCAN my ISP or something, because I now get tons of spam on the NEW, TOTALLY unplublished email. My friends wouldn't do this to me.

Someday, soon, there'll be a law. BUT, there'll be no way to enforce it. I will say, being on the DO NOT CALL list has stopped the solicitations via phone. Maybe there could be a DO NOT EMAIL list?

Please?

Thanks, too, Steve, for letting ME rant.

Marilu

--
http://www.pbase.com/canyonlu/galleries
 
it reminded me, my daughter worked in the white house during Reagan adm. and she wanted to email somebody there and accidentally put in white house.com instead of .org, well the .com one is a porn site and she was overwhelmed with photos and emails, the more she tried to rid herself of it the more she got until at one point she was afraid to boot the computer up.

She ended up having to have her hard drive wiped clean and changed her email address and carrier.
I feel so bad for you but at some point it will become an amuzing antedote.
 
Someday, soon, there'll be a law. BUT, there'll be no way to
enforce it. I will say, being on the DO NOT CALL list has stopped
the solicitations via phone. Maybe there could be a DO NOT EMAIL
list?
And about time it is... I heard on the radio news a few days ago that they have just charged one of the really BIG spammers. It was during the morning commute so I was less than fully awake so I can't remeber if it was a state or federal law (I do remember it was down there and not a Canadian law)
 
Same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. Firewall and spyware and virus detection cleaned it out after warning me to scan the computer. But, I still get the spam from the porn sites, but it never reaches the computer. Stays on earthlink's web mail site, and I just turn it in as spam and to block the sender. I could change the email address, but I figure why not turn in as many as I can until I get tired or they do. And there is a new law regarding spammers. An article in either USA Today or WJs said that the big spammers except for one were getting out of the business because it was too risky. GC
 
Most of the spam I get (several dozen a day) comes from overseas. So I don't see how laws are gonna stop the spammers.

Sorry to hear about your recent computer problems Steve.

Cassandra
Same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. Firewall and
spyware and virus detection cleaned it out after warning me to scan
the computer. But, I still get the spam from the porn sites, but
it never reaches the computer. Stays on earthlink's web mail site,
and I just turn it in as spam and to block the sender. I could
change the email address, but I figure why not turn in as many as I
can until I get tired or they do. And there is a new law regarding
spammers. An article in either USA Today or WJs said that the big
spammers except for one were getting out of the business because it
was too risky. GC
--
http://www.pbase.com/cassandra/nikon_d70
 
Most of the time it's fairly easy to see at a glance which emails are spam and which are valid. However this one was crafty. It was sent by........me?
It was sent from the Lifetimephoto.com "team" (I have no team).

"Dear user of Lifetimephoto.com,
Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.

Further details can be obtained from attached file.

Best wishes,
The Lifetimephoto.com team"

Vikki Hansen
http://www.lifetimephoto.com
http://www.pbase.com/vhansen/galleries
 
Talk about annoying. I get all those silly offers too...the saddest ones are for girl on girl porn. If I want to see that I bring out a mirror and my wife. I might not mind if they offered me something I might NEED. (I have no use for Viagra or member enlargment either...I'm female and our mortgage is almost paid off.) God bless mail filters....my spam went from hundreds per day to less than a half dozen.

--
Yesi :)
'My border collie is smarter than your honor student.'
Wow! All of a sudden I have discovered that I have friends all over
the world, and not just so-so friends, but really concerned
friends. This past week, my e-mail has been bulging with letters.
Some of these people are so concerned that they had to write me and
tell me. Several of my new friends think that a certain part of my
anatomy is too small. They feel that this will damage my
relationships with my wife and mistress and scar me mentally. So,
they have made several suggestions to cure the problem at a minimal
cost. Who am I to pass up such a bargain? My dilemma is which one
should I try first? Should it be the one with the most passionate
plea? Or how about the one that will save me the most money? Or
should it be the one that gives me the most for my money? If I try
them all, I will need a wheelbarrow to get around. I’ve asked my
wife what I should do and she just went “humph” and walked away.
Anyway, that’s not all that my new friends are offering help in.
One is offering a huge discount on Viagra. I didn’t even know that
I needed Viagra; but I got it anyway. I take one each night and it
keeps me from rolling out of bed. What I want to know is how do
they find out about my problems? Who’s been talking? My wife says
that she certainly has not. I went over the whole house and I’ve
found no cameras. The only other likely culprit would be the cat.
I’ve never trusted that cat (ever since we had him neutered). It’s
that look that he gives me and I think this might be his revenge.
He’s telling everyone about my shortcomings. I should never have
listened to my wife and gotten him that AOL account. Late at night,
I’m awakened by that irritating sound from the chat rooms. You know
the sound – that ding or dong sound that says you have mail.

Some of the e-mail I receive from my new friends tells me that
their husband is cheating on them and they want to have an affair
with me. This would be cool except for the fact that my wife has
this sinister laugh each time she hears the words “John Wayne
Bobbit” mentioned. I also get mail from the husbands that say my
wife is cheating on me. I just write them back and say that I’m not
interested. Most of the time they write back and ask how I know
that I’m not interested. Have you ever?

It’s getting to the point that I’m scared to even open my e-mail.
You have spyware, adware, hijackers, viruses, worms, porn, women
wanting me to call them at $30 a minute, moneylenders with names
like Moe, Guido, etc. and pitches for adult toys. Now, this one
interested me because I have wanted an erector set since I was a
child but we couldn’t afford it. When I e-mailed them inquiring
about purchasing one, you would not believe what they sent back. I
didn’t buy it because it involved 220 and my wife says I’m not
wired for 220.

The ones that really get me are the ones that claim not to be spam.
They are unsolicited. I didn’t ask for them. They think they are
doing me a favor by offering me something I didn’t even know I
need. Obviously, I could not survive without it and they felt it
was their obligation, their duty, to inform me that I should get
it. I’m sorry, but this is still spam. Anyway, enough of a rant.
Goodbye for now. I have to go and check my e-mail.

Steve
--
My PBase gallery
http://www.pbase.com/trimoon
 
I'm not doubting your story at all, but I highly doubt that happened during the Reagan admin. He left office in 1989. I really don't think that website was up at that point in time. I don't even know anyone that was using the internet in 1989. My first time was in 1994.

Just my 2 cents..
 
Thanks for ranting:

I have no e-mails but tons of spam every day.

I wait the few e-mails that I do get with glee.

I hate the waste of time and energy that deleting spam entails.

So rant on .......... because I can't anymore.

My ISP provider - bigpond - has it seems incured the wrath of the international communitgy for having an infected system. They certainly keep thir head low when I rant at them.

Jan
 
Marilu,

I don't know which ISP you are using but some actually sell your e-mail address. Then they complain about the cost of processing all the spam.

Kurt
I'm so sick of it, and like you, don't need it. I don't have a P _
_ _ _ to take pills for size, I have a mortgage better than they
can offer, if my husband cheats, it's his business, not theirs, or
mine.....I don't need meds that aren't even prescribed for me, I
can fix my own computer, I don't open emails from ISPs named
xxyyult75656ls9yutqmgm.net or anything similar, and now I have
changed my email address to STOP this insanity. Big Deal. I only
use the old email address on the web......don't let it into my OE.
BUT, they apparently SCAN my ISP or something, because I now get
tons of spam on the NEW, TOTALLY unplublished email. My friends
wouldn't do this to me.

Someday, soon, there'll be a law. BUT, there'll be no way to
enforce it. I will say, being on the DO NOT CALL list has stopped
the solicitations via phone. Maybe there could be a DO NOT EMAIL
list?

Please?

Thanks, too, Steve, for letting ME rant.

Marilu

--
http://www.pbase.com/canyonlu/galleries
 
Not sure what you folks are doing but I do not get any of that stuff and I do not do anything special. I run Norton Security which has anti-virus and a firewall.

I keep paying for aol for my kids and that account is 99.9% spam and crapola. The aol account is only there to keep the kids screen names alive; some one has to own the primary account.

However, my Adelphia cable account using MS Outlook 2002 has no issues. Either my name is not out there or Adelphia is doing a great job of sorting before delivery. This is my only account that I use.

Droppingin

--
I will never photograph a cockroach.
 
When I had an account with AT&T, I have never received any spam, once I switched over to Comcast, the flood gate opened, two issues her:
1) AT&T has a good spam blocking server

2) Some ISPs, including Comcast, actually sell your info - how else would you explain that I am getting spam on an account that has never, ever sent one email, no one knows about this account but Comcast!

-Alan
 
I think you are correct Alan. The cable ISP is more expensive and maybe that is one of the cost factors. After all, not allowing spammers means considerably less sources of revenue to exploit.

Without getting more off topic, how much is it worth per month not to be spammed?

Droppingin

--
I will never photograph a cockroach.
When I had an account with AT&T, I have never received any spam,
once I switched over to Comcast, the flood gate opened, two issues
her:
1) AT&T has a good spam blocking server
2) Some ISPs, including Comcast, actually sell your info - how else
would you explain that I am getting spam on an account that has
never, ever sent one email, no one knows about this account but
Comcast!

-Alan
 
That's certainly a possibility, Kurt. I also heard somewhere that there's some way the spammers "scan" ISP's, but I sure wouldn't know how that would be accomplished. I do know it's very, very irritating, as is the feeling of everyone. My ISP is Cox.

Marilu
I don't know which ISP you are using but some actually sell your
e-mail address. Then they complain about the cost of processing
all the spam.

Kurt
I'm so sick of it, and like you, don't need it. I don't have a P _
_ _ _ to take pills for size, I have a mortgage better than they
can offer, if my husband cheats, it's his business, not theirs, or
mine.....I don't need meds that aren't even prescribed for me, I
can fix my own computer, I don't open emails from ISPs named
xxyyult75656ls9yutqmgm.net or anything similar, and now I have
changed my email address to STOP this insanity. Big Deal. I only
use the old email address on the web......don't let it into my OE.
BUT, they apparently SCAN my ISP or something, because I now get
tons of spam on the NEW, TOTALLY unplublished email. My friends
wouldn't do this to me.

Someday, soon, there'll be a law. BUT, there'll be no way to
enforce it. I will say, being on the DO NOT CALL list has stopped
the solicitations via phone. Maybe there could be a DO NOT EMAIL
list?

Please?

Thanks, too, Steve, for letting ME rant.

Marilu

--
http://www.pbase.com/canyonlu/galleries
--
http://www.pbase.com/canyonlu/galleries
 
I did not say it happened in the Reagan adm. I said my daughter work in the white house then and one time wanted to email someone in the white house she knew because she had worked with them there, it was actually only 2 years ago this happened, not that I need to explain it to you.
 
I discovered recently that spammers have a tracking system on the email. In other words, if you land on a message just to delete it, it has been logged somewhere that it was looked at (even thouh you were only deleting it), and this tells some other log to keep sending to that address. Very tricky... I've set up a rules list of statements that are within the spam message. They are deposited directly into the trash. But the spammers don't quit. They alter a simple message like "Are you interested in mortgage refinancing?" to "Are you interested in mor.tgage re.financing?" Notice the extra puncuation in the phrase. I'm pretty tired of spammers and virus writers.

jeanette...

--
'Communication is the cornerstone to understanding.'
Jeanette Butler
http://www.pbase.com/maxie6
http://www.pbase.com/pugusers
 
When you install Mailwasher and use Mailwasher first to check your email on your ISP-server and you see spam or virus-attachements (through checking the text and the sender's DNS), then you can bounce unwanted emails back and then delete from the ISP-server. It will never reach your inbox that way.

Now you can download the rest of the email to your browser (with the preview-pane switched off of course, just in case another spam had been sent while you were processing). If another one sneaked through while you were busy, check the properties first and delete from the email client, then delete from the "Deleted Items" folder and File > Folder > Compact all Folders and then it is safe to open the preview pane again to look at your email.
Complicated? Sure is, but in the face of war, attacks are sure to come to all.
Practise "Safe Hex" also.
http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html
The last spam I received was a few weeks ago.

Of course, I disable everything in my browser, Active X, Java, Cookies and so on.

Except for sites I trust, such as this site here and other select trusted sites I frequent. I just enter the URL into the "Trusted Sites" of my Internet Browser, where all is enabled.

Of couse, all my ports are closed also, so the enemy is not aware that I am here. Pure Stealth. Check out:
http://www.grc.com/default.htm
So far so good...
Greetings,
--
Bernd Taeger
 
Wow! All of a sudden I have discovered that I have friends all over
the world, and not just so-so friends, but really concerned
friends. This past week, my e-mail has been bulging with letters.
Some of these people are so concerned that they had to write me and
tell me. Several of my new friends think that a certain part of my
anatomy is too small. They feel that this will damage my
relationships with my wife and mistress and scar me mentally. So,
they have made several suggestions to cure the problem at a minimal
cost. Who am I to pass up such a bargain? My dilemma is which one
should I try first? Should it be the one with the most passionate
plea? Or how about the one that will save me the most money? Or
should it be the one that gives me the most for my money? If I try
them all, I will need a wheelbarrow to get around. I’ve asked my
wife what I should do and she just went “humph” and walked away.
Anyway, that’s not all that my new friends are offering help in.
One is offering a huge discount on Viagra. I didn’t even know that
I needed Viagra; but I got it anyway. I take one each night and it
keeps me from rolling out of bed. What I want to know is how do
they find out about my problems? Who’s been talking? My wife says
that she certainly has not. I went over the whole house and I’ve
found no cameras. The only other likely culprit would be the cat.
I’ve never trusted that cat (ever since we had him neutered). It’s
that look that he gives me and I think this might be his revenge.
He’s telling everyone about my shortcomings. I should never have
listened to my wife and gotten him that AOL account. Late at night,
I’m awakened by that irritating sound from the chat rooms. You know
the sound – that ding or dong sound that says you have mail.

Some of the e-mail I receive from my new friends tells me that
their husband is cheating on them and they want to have an affair
with me. This would be cool except for the fact that my wife has
this sinister laugh each time she hears the words “John Wayne
Bobbit” mentioned. I also get mail from the husbands that say my
wife is cheating on me. I just write them back and say that I’m not
interested. Most of the time they write back and ask how I know
that I’m not interested. Have you ever?

It’s getting to the point that I’m scared to even open my e-mail.
You have spyware, adware, hijackers, viruses, worms, porn, women
wanting me to call them at $30 a minute, moneylenders with names
like Moe, Guido, etc. and pitches for adult toys. Now, this one
interested me because I have wanted an erector set since I was a
child but we couldn’t afford it. When I e-mailed them inquiring
about purchasing one, you would not believe what they sent back. I
didn’t buy it because it involved 220 and my wife says I’m not
wired for 220.

The ones that really get me are the ones that claim not to be spam.
They are unsolicited. I didn’t ask for them. They think they are
doing me a favor by offering me something I didn’t even know I
need. Obviously, I could not survive without it and they felt it
was their obligation, their duty, to inform me that I should get
it. I’m sorry, but this is still spam. Anyway, enough of a rant.
Goodbye for now. I have to go and check my e-mail.

Steve
--
My PBase gallery
http://www.pbase.com/trimoon
Very interesting thread.
I'll share my experience with Bellsouth.net.

Until roughly 2 weeks ago, I regularly received 10 to 20 spam messages daily even though I enabled Bellsouth's spam blocker. I never opened any of these messages, just deleted them as they're relatively easy to recognize. Then, all of a sudden, as I said, about 2 weeks ago, I stopped getting any spam, well maybe 1 or 2 in the past 2 weeks. Apparently Bellsouth has greatly improved their spam blocker and, for now, it's working very well.
I use Outlook 2000.
--
Regards,
(afka Wile E. Coyote)
Bill
PSAA

A proud owner of 2 Olympus E-10s,2 LIPO (should that be 'Lipi?), WCON 08B, TCON 14B, FL-CB05, 2 Stroboframes, FL-40, and other stuff...

 

Keyboard shortcuts

Back
Top