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xstream
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Carefree
Advanced Member
Philippines
4217 Posts |
 Posted - 10 December 2002 : 08:17:48
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| Set up a rule in Outlook Express to auto-respond to all unknown EMail addresses with that link embedded in an html-encoded reply. LOL |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20595 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2002 : 09:07:04
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| the unfortunate problem with spam is that the reply address is normally non existant, so all you are doing is increasing your mail load, just ignore them. |
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Bookie
Average Member
USA
856 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2002 : 09:35:35
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| It's not the spammers I'd send this to. It's my father-in-law, my co-worker, my brother-in-law, an acquaintance at church, the friend who just got my e-mail address, and everyone else who forwards me stupid stuff. |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2002 : 09:44:39
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| Never answer SPAM mail, they will know that your mailadress exists and send you even more - ignore them at all times.....! |
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xstream
Junior Member
242 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2002 : 10:17:06
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Yeah, I send it to friends and relatives who fall for silly hoaxes...hehe..
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2002 : 12:16:28
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here's my top tip -
Get a domain (you can get a .co.uk for under a tenner) then for every site that forces you to register etc, give your email address as <sitename>@<yourdomain> eg I used snitz@<mydomain>.co.uk to register here, passport.com@<mydomain>.co.uk for passport etc. Have all your emails come through to the same account, then when you get spam, dig around in the email headers for the original to: address.
This means you now have the name of the company who sold its mailing list (assuming they're not just trying webmaster@ etc), and assuming you ticked that little 'never email me ever ever ever' box, you've got something to chat with them and the data protection registrar about, should you so choose. Or send all emails to <offendingsite>@<yourdomain>.co.uk to your deleted items folder automagically.
hth
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2002 : 12:23:35
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btw this works really well for me - I've been using it for over 2 yrs and it's been a joy  |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20595 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2002 : 12:27:35
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I also work this way, I have a personal address which never gets used for any sign ups, and I use various others
for different kinds of things, when the junk starts coming in, i just assign them as NULL accounts and start using a different one. |
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VodkaFish
Average Member
USA
654 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2002 : 14:27:07
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I've set up some fake bounce back messages before. I can never really tell if they work or not, but you never know...
That alias thing may not be a bad idea... |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2002 : 18:30:09
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| I've been using CloudMark's spamnet (Outlook plugin) for a few months now and I can honestly say its fantastic ! its catches at least 98% of the spam coming into me and chucks it into its own folder, much better than straight outlook rules. If you can live with the fact that it physically send your email headers to its own server to help identify spam then I'd give it a shot. http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/ |
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James
Average Member
USA
539 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2002 : 23:16:07
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here's my top tip -
Get a domain (you can get a .co.uk for under a tenner) then for every site that......
You might be able to tell something if the e-mails start coming short afterwards, but it's still not a sure thing. Spammers sometimes use a generic username list and will send it to every username on each domain they mail out too. I've noticed this on a domain of mine before, where a catch all account caught hundreds on spams that used this method. |
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David K
Junior Member
494 Posts |
Posted - 11 December 2002 : 03:28:05
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| as I said erlier this week, I recived (apperantly SPAM) to my new server (less than a month) to an address that doesn't exist and was ever published. so here goes your tracking. |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
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Classicmotorcycling
Development Team Leader
Australia
2085 Posts |
Posted - 11 December 2002 : 14:24:20
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I have to agree with Gremlin. Cloudmark has a great freeware program that kills about 98% of SPAM comming in.  
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I've been using CloudMark's spamnet (Outlook plugin) for a few months now and I can honestly say its fantastic ! its catches at least 98% of the spam coming into me and chucks it into its own folder, much better than straight outlook rules. If you can live with the fact that it physically send your email headers to its own server to help identify spam then I'd give it a shot. http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/
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VodkaFish
Average Member
USA
654 Posts |
Posted - 12 December 2002 : 15:17:19
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Originally posted by Gremlin
I've been using CloudMark's spamnet (Outlook plugin) for a few months now and I can honestly say its fantastic ! its catches at least 98% of the spam coming into me and chucks it into its own folder, much better than straight outlook rules. If you can live with the fact that it physically send your email headers to its own server to help identify spam then I'd give it a shot. http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/
I was being pretty pimpish with this software a few months ago (praised it here as well). I too am very happy with it (still) |
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