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Since 23rd December I have received 140 e-mails trying to persuade me to buy
software packages(all the same software - different "selling" companies) and Viagra(don't need it anyway) These are filtered by my Norton package into my spam bin. What annoys me however is that they are getting through to me in the first place. Surely, in this day and age, there should be some means of stopping them from getting to your computer at all. Surely there is the technology somewhere. Anyone know anything? |
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Michael Hobby wrote:
Since 23rd December I have received 140 e-mails trying to persuade me to buy software packages(all the same software - different "selling" companies) and Viagra(don't need it anyway) These are filtered by my Norton package into my spam bin. What annoys me however is that they are getting through to me in the first place. Surely, in this day and age, there should be some means of stopping them from getting to your computer at all. Surely there is the technology somewhere. Anyone know anything? Many ISPs offer spam filtering which, generally, works quite well. Usually they will use a Bayesian filter, which tends to prove quite successful. In practice, once your email address is out there, this is the only way to stop the spam getting to you. If your ISP doesn't do spam filtering then find one that does. Colin |
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:29:01 -0000, "Michael Hobby"
wrote: ... Since 23rd December I have received 140 e-mails trying to persuade me to buy ... software packages(all the same software - different "selling" companies) and ... Viagra(don't need it anyway) These are filtered by my Norton package into my ... spam bin. What annoys me however is that they are getting through to me in ... the first place. Surely, in this day and age, there should be some means of ... stopping them from getting to your computer at all. Surely there is the ... technology somewhere. Anyone know anything? ... Not really .... prevention is better than "cure". I only slightly munged my email address in the past and an Amercain sicko troll in an XP newsgroup, unmunged it. He thought it funny to plaster it over his his next post and it was picked up by the "robots". I now get all the stuff you mentioned and fear I will have to change my address in the end. Pity, as it was a squeaky clean spam free address for years. I used a hotmail address for non personal contact, so I expected it on there. Once your address is being used it will probably be a target for more spam. So help yourself and munge your email address if you can. Mike P |
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![]() "Mike P" [email protected] wrote in message ... On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:29:01 -0000, "Michael Hobby" wrote: .. Since 23rd December I have received 140 e-mails trying to persuade me to buy .. software packages(all the same software - different "selling" companies) and .. Viagra(don't need it anyway) These are filtered by my Norton package into my .. spam bin. What annoys me however is that they are getting through to me in .. the first place. Surely, in this day and age, there should be some means of .. stopping them from getting to your computer at all. Surely there is the .. technology somewhere. Anyone know anything? .. Not really .... prevention is better than "cure". I only slightly munged my email address in the past and an Amercain sicko troll in an XP newsgroup, unmunged it. He thought it funny to plaster it over his his next post and it was picked up by the "robots". I now get all the stuff you mentioned and fear I will have to change my address in the end. Pity, as it was a squeaky clean spam free address for years. I used a hotmail address for non personal contact, so I expected it on there. Once your address is being used it will probably be a target for more spam. So help yourself and munge your email address if you can. Mike P Pardon my ignorance - what is "munge"? |
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:08:19 -0000, "Michael Hobby"
wrote: ... ... "Mike P" [email protected] wrote in message ... .. . ... On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:29:01 -0000, "Michael Hobby" ... wrote: ... ... .. Since 23rd December I have received 140 e-mails trying to persuade me ... to buy ... .. software packages(all the same software - different "selling" ... companies) and ... .. Viagra(don't need it anyway) These are filtered by my Norton package ... into my ... .. spam bin. What annoys me however is that they are getting through to ... me in ... .. the first place. Surely, in this day and age, there should be some ... means of ... .. stopping them from getting to your computer at all. Surely there is ... the ... .. technology somewhere. Anyone know anything? ... .. ... Not really .... prevention is better than "cure". ... ... I only slightly munged my email address in the past and an Amercain ... sicko troll in an XP newsgroup, unmunged it. ... He thought it funny to plaster it over his his next post and it was ... picked up by the "robots". ... I now get all the stuff you mentioned and fear I will have to change ... my address in the end. ... Pity, as it was a squeaky clean spam free address for years. I used a ... hotmail address for non personal contact, so I expected it on there. ... Once your address is being used it will probably be a target for more ... spam. ... So help yourself and munge your email address if you can. ... ... Mike P ... ... Pardon my ignorance - what is "munge"? ... Well .... somehwere you should be able to alter your email adress .. in your newsreader perhaps.( I use Free Agent) here you can alter(munge) your address so it can be deciphered if someone wants to email you. For example ... could be changed to and a the bottom of your post ,,, you might put "remove trousers to reply" .. not joking :-) the robots will find your non existant munged address Perhaps you have already done it as I see there is no @freeserve.co.uk? But this might not be suffficient. Mike P |
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Michael Hobby wrote:
Since 23rd December I have received 140 e-mails trying to persuade me to buy software packages(all the same software - different "selling" companies) and Viagra(don't need it anyway) These are filtered by my Norton package into my spam bin. What annoys me however is that they are getting through to me in the first place. Surely, in this day and age, there should be some means of stopping them from getting to your computer at all. Surely there is the technology somewhere. Anyone know anything? First of all, never *ever* use your real email address in usenet. There are robots out there that 'harvest' email addresses which are then sold on. You could try using Mailwasher pro (see http://www.firetrust.com)which is very effective at dealing with the problem. It allows you to use various filters and blacklists to automatically delete and/or bounce spam emails back to whence they came! Effectively it sits between your ISP and your pc's inbox. It scans your email inbox on the ISP every 10 minutes and automatically processes your mail for delete &/or bounce or delivery to your pc's inbox. Also, check to see if your ISP provides spam filtering. You may need to go in to your email setup via a web browser rather than through Outlook Express to turn it on. -- Dave McLaughlin Homo Sapiens Non Urinat In Ventum |
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![]() "Mike P" [email protected] wrote in message ... On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:08:19 -0000, "Michael Hobby" wrote: .. .. "Mike P" [email protected] wrote in message .. .. . .. On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:29:01 -0000, "Michael Hobby" .. wrote: .. .. .. Since 23rd December I have received 140 e-mails trying to persuade me .. to buy .. .. software packages(all the same software - different "selling" .. companies) and .. .. Viagra(don't need it anyway) These are filtered by my Norton package .. into my .. .. spam bin. What annoys me however is that they are getting through to .. me in .. .. the first place. Surely, in this day and age, there should be some .. means of .. .. stopping them from getting to your computer at all. Surely there is .. the .. .. technology somewhere. Anyone know anything? .. .. .. Not really .... prevention is better than "cure". .. .. I only slightly munged my email address in the past and an Amercain .. sicko troll in an XP newsgroup, unmunged it. .. He thought it funny to plaster it over his his next post and it was .. picked up by the "robots". .. I now get all the stuff you mentioned and fear I will have to change .. my address in the end. .. Pity, as it was a squeaky clean spam free address for years. I used a .. hotmail address for non personal contact, so I expected it on there. .. Once your address is being used it will probably be a target for more .. spam. .. So help yourself and munge your email address if you can. .. .. Mike P .. .. Pardon my ignorance - what is "munge"? .. Well .... somehwere you should be able to alter your email adress .. in your newsreader perhaps.( I use Free Agent) here you can alter(munge) your address so it can be deciphered if someone wants to email you. For example ... could be changed to and a the bottom of your post ,,, you might put "remove trousers to reply" .. not joking :-) the robots will find your non existant munged address Perhaps you have already done it as I see there is no @freeserve.co.uk? But this might not be suffficient. Mike P Thanks - getting the idea now! To reply - drop trousers |
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In article , Dave McLaughlin
writes You could try using Mailwasher pro (see http://www.firetrust.com)which is very effective at dealing with the problem. It allows you to use various filters and blacklists to automatically delete and/or bounce spam emails back to whence they came! But please don't use it to bounce them back just delete them. Nearly all spam has a forged return path which means the bounces go to innocent accounts thereby increasing the spam problem for somebody else. At times about 1/3 of the spam I get is that which has been bounced to a forged return path at one of my accounts :-( -- Dominic Sexton |
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Michael Hobby wrote:
Since 23rd December I have received 140 e-mails trying to persuade me to buy software packages(all the same software - different "selling" companies) and Viagra(don't need it anyway) These are filtered by my Norton package into my spam bin. What annoys me however is that they are getting through to me in the first place. Surely, in this day and age, there should be some means of stopping them from getting to your computer at all. Surely there is the technology somewhere. Anyone know anything? It's a lot like the arms race, spam filters are released, spam evolves, new filters are released but usually take a little while to catch up. I've never used my email address on Usenet and that helps enormously in keeping spam to a minimum. It used to be a pain back in the days of dial-up having to wait while spam downloaded but with the advent of broadband it shouldn't be an issue, be thankful that your filter is dealing with it and that you don't have to. Most ISPs try and filter the obvious stuff but as you are seeing a fair amount gets through. I use Thunderbird as my Mail & New client and its built in spam filters are superb, after only a few days training it what's spam and what isn't it has never made a mistake. It uses a Junk folder and a Junk Suspects folder, in the first week some good mail ended up in the suspect folder but as I said with a bit of training it's got it sorted. By default any mail from people in my address book is allowed everything else is filtered. Prior to using Thunderbird I was using Outlook as my mail client and I can recommend the Spambeyes plugin, it's free and it works in exactly the same way as the Thunderbird filter, I'm not sure if it works with Outlook Express, I've never been an OE user. -- Regards Nick |
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