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I get about 60-70 spams a day. So, I subscribe to Spamnet from Cloudmark

( http://cloudmark.com ). They have close to a million subscribers. If you get a spam that has not been seen before, you click the "block" button, and it goes into their database of spams. Spams that have been blocked by others automatically go into your deleted folder, so you don't have to deal with them. It usually catches about 99% of the spams sent to me. I think it is worth it. BTW, it only works with M$ Outlook, and it costs about $24/year.
Trimoon said:
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
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Gary Willson
http://willsononline.com
 
Hmmmm,

Deliver what you promised and "that will be that".

Seems like your computer is fixed as you have been able to read all of the email.
Trimoon said:
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
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It's obvious that the spammers know they are up to no good when they send an offer for cheep viagra using the subject ... "Notice of overdue account".

I wonder if it's worth holding the makers of Viagra, and the various goods, responsible. It might pressure them to inforce stricter conditions on their wholesalers, somewhat like holding an ISP accountable.

Any way, I use Mailwasher (www.mailwasher.net) to check my mail while it is still on the server. You can delete spam without ever downloading it into your computer. If you're unsure about an e-mail, you can preview it as plain text to prevent any web bugs, virus scripts etc from running.

You can use it as freeware, but US$37.00 will get you more features.

I also use the latest McFee Security Center to catch any spam I miss.

Regards,
Niall
Bernd Taeger said:
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
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okiejack said:
Deliver what you promised and "that will be that".

Seems like your computer is fixed as you have been able to read all
of the email.
Trimoon said:
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
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A couple of years ago, a friend of my daughter's brought her some candy from Seoul. We really liked it, so when we found a URL on the label, we decided to check it out. It was in Korean, so no good info there. But ever since, I've been getting Korean spam! I have no idea what they're trying to sell me . . . (I only know it's Korean because it comes from .kr)

I've set up Earthlink's spam blocker, and use Mail Washer. Between them, virtually nothing gets to my inbox.

Oh, and why is it that I keep getting the male enchancement ads, and hubby gets the breast enchancement ones? Are they trying to tell us something that we haven't been able to figure out for ourselves? :)

--
Patricia
http://www.pbase.com/arenared986
 
Here's a free service that helps you fight spam.
http://www.sneakemail.com

When you want to give your email on any website you create a unique email for that website, and if they decide to spam you, then you disable that email address and you dont hear from them again.

It works like a charm, I'm never scared of giving out these emails on any webpage.
Trimoon said:
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
Click to expand...
 
Patricia said:
Oh, and why is it that I keep getting the male enchancement ads,
and hubby gets the breast enchancement ones? Are they trying to
tell us something that we haven't been able to figure out for
ourselves? :)
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I have an even worse problem. I get both and cant decide which to do. And if I do both, certainly Ill have to do one of the weight loss ones as well to cut back in other areas. ;-)

I tried spam blockers but found them to have their own problems, ie deleting an important email, having conflicts with other programs etc. I now just have dump addresses that I delete when the spamming gets to be too much. I also keep the OE messages folder on my desktop so I can go in and delete the whole inbox file without having to delete individual messages. That way I dont send data back to the spammer by clicking on each email.

But its getting worse out there and now when I go to my dump addresses I keep saying to myself, "Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my"

Dan
 
You wouldn't need to explain to anyone if you wrote more clearly. I had the same thoughts
platscha said:
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.
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John
 
Well, when I had AT&T it was 19.95/month, but it was dial up. That was the only reason I left AT&T, lack of broadband, they would not answer my questions as when are they going to have it nor did they give me a time frame. I knew what I was getting into with cable but the speed was/still attractive.

-Alan
Droppingin said:
Without getting more off topic, how much is it worth per month not
to be spammed?

Droppingin

--
I will never photograph a cockroach.
Alani said:
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
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My email account at yahoo.co.uk also costs nothing and has the same spam blocking & reporting button, but costs me nothing. It works with all popular email readers.

It's very effective, as I receive less than 3 spam emails per day now, even though my email addresses are available for all to see.
D Juan Hundred said:
I get about 60-70 spams a day. So, I subscribe to Spamnet from
Cloudmark
( http://cloudmark.com ). They have close to a million
subscribers. If you get a spam that has not been seen before, you
click the "block" button, and it goes into their database of spams.
Spams that have been blocked by others automatically go into your
deleted folder, so you don't have to deal with them. It usually
catches about 99% of the spams sent to me. I think it is worth it.
BTW, it only works with M$ Outlook, and it costs about $24/year.
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------------------------------------------
(Voluntary member of I.C.R.A.)
 
Did you notice that TV Commercials from Drug Companies all tell you that their product is wonderful, but never tell you what it is wonderful for? "Ask your Doctor about_ ", they always say.

"Hey, Doc. A man who plays a Doctor on television told me to ask you about . I have no idea what it's for. Should I be taking it five times a day?"

At the end of the Ad, they give you a big list of side-effects; most of which are likely worse than the malidy to be cured. All except one: "May have sexual side effects."

They don't tell you what those side effects are, though. Maybe they're good? Maybe they'll make your "stuff" bigger? There's something to consider.

-Ellery
--
Pixelated Electronics Engineer (HW/SW/FW)
 
whitehouse.org is a satire of the official site, whitehouse.gov!
platscha said:
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
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I enjoyed your rant. Very amusing.

I don't have your problem though. My personal e-mail account only my friends know about. Although it's only a year old, I receive zero spam. My previous e-mail account lasted 6 years before I started (slowly) getting up to about 20 spams a week. I killed that account and created the new one, informing just my friends of the change.

I have two other personal accounts. One is a second account under my ISP. It's about a year old. I use that for online shopping invoices (not all of them, just the ones I trust more), online banking and other online financial services, and other "official" things. I don't care if that gets spammy, but I don't exactly encourage the spam either. It's still modestly clean, with solicitations and special offers from the retailers I have been to. I delete them without reading them.

The third personal account I have is for everything else. It's a Hotmail account, and is it FEEELTHY!! Even with the 2nd most restrictive spam filter Hotmail offers, I get about 10 spams a day. I've had this account for about 6 years. I use this account for forum registration and other online things. If I think my e-mail address will get "spidered" on the web by a robot hunting down addresses, I'll use this account.

Oh, and if I don't care about what they send me, like Software Registration, I'll just use something idiotic and false like [email protected].

Works great! Everyone should use a similar method like i described. My parent's aren't quite as suave, and their 2-year-old account is getting very spammy. I told them they shouldn't have used their primary email for airline tickets....!

ALSO: I don't use Outlook because of the virus potential. I use Opera or Netscape or my ISP's webmail. Because of this, viruses can't find my email address and spread it around. Don't open suspiciious attachments. Run AdAware every month or two to eliminate spyware.

The Internet is as dangerous as the city streets. Don't be naive. Protect yourself and get some street smarts.

By the way, I'm not targeting you in particular. This is general good advice.
 
My parents had some very similar problems with their machine lately. I found a great website that helps out with the spyware/adware/virus problems. http://www.computercops.biz/postt7736.html

It contains a lot of great information and tools to help prevent this type of garbage from getting on your machine and keeping it off.

-Lisa
 
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