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captain ron (Captain_ron)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 10:33 am: | |
I get a LOT of spam. If I don't know who is sending email I usualy don't open it, and definatly won't open fwded email. wont open email I have to down load. so if you send me email make sure it has message in body I open up initialy. no attachments unless they are solicited by me. not trying to be a prick just want to take care of my computer. I just got email from "edannbusataol" and deleted it. I don't know if this is a bus nut or not but if it is and you have something of importance please make subject line appropriate. Thanks captain Ron |
Gary Stadler (Boogiethecat)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 11:07 am: | |
It's just part of being part of the internet. Someone somewhere had your email address on their computer and it got into the wrong hands, and that begins an unending acceleration of spam, delivered right to your door. There's no way around it, and it just gets worse and worse until you finally give up and change addresses..... well... there is a fix...
I now get something like 10 legitimate emails a day... and on average 200 spams. It was driving me nuts until a buddie said, "look dude, spend $30 and sign up with
http://www.spamcop.net/ces/individuals.shtml
It is a very interesting and powerful tool against spam... you sign up and create a new address, like busnut@spamcop.net, etc.
Then you give them your email POP data, and they access your email account about every 15 minutes and download it to their servers. They filter the spam very well. Then when you want your email, you set up your mail program to fetch it from their servers using the busnut@spamcop.net address, and download it from them.
To date, in four years, spamcop has erroniously grabbed maybe three legit emails that they shouldn't have, and they pass thru maybe 3-4 spams per day that they should have caught. It's quite good... and you totally have the opportunity to check what they have grabbed and keep it...and due to the cool way they have it set up, checking even 200 spams for ones that shouldn't have been nabbed only takes about 30 seconds.
The system is even better... if you go to the webpage prior to downloading your email, you can scan all your inbox stuff and mark obvious spams that have sneaked thru as such and report them.
Their spam filters are updated daily with the spams people report, so the filters are dynamic and learn every day... interactively updated daily by all of their subscribers...that's the way they stay so well on top of it.
Last benefit: you can do ALL of your email work via their webpage so it's perfect for us busnuts who go on the road but can't access our SMPT servers remotely. And since all the email is already downloaded into spamcop and all you have is a list of them all on their webpage, it's so fast to check emails remotely because you don't have to wait to download them all.
No, I don't work for spamcop. It's just the best thing that I ever found out about on the web, and most certainly the best thirty bucks I've ever spent!!
Remember, spamcop.NET, NOT .com.... |
Donald Lee Schwanke (Dontx)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 2:47 pm: | |
OK, I sprung for the $30 this morning, seems to be working well so far. For some reason spam has gotten totally out of control lately. |
Gary Carter
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 4:29 pm: | |
A few ISPs also filter spam out. Mine (usinternet) has been doing this for about a year. I get some, but used to get many. Lately they seem to be stock tips. |
Brent Coursey
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 8:14 pm: | |
We use ineva.com as our ISP and they have a very good spam filter. They put all of the spam in a quarantine folder where you can look at it if you want. I rarely get spam and when we do we can put them on the "blacklist" never to see them again. They only charge around $24/month and you can access your mail via the web instead of downloading it. |
David (Davidinwilmnc)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 8:58 pm: | |
You can also set up filters in Outlook or Outlook Express. I have done this and it works very well and is free. When a spam mail slips by, I try to figure out why and correct the filters. I have a 'filtered' folder that receives the filtered mail. I glance over this folder before I delete the mail just in case. I'd say I have about 90%+ accuracy. |
Gus Causbie (Gusc)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 11:54 pm: | |
Gary,
I use a very similar technique on my IP's website. I screen for spam on the IP's website before I download anything. I usually get 15-20 per day so it is no big deal, your IP just has to have a website that allows access to your email. I'm lucky, mine is a very small local outfit but has terrific service I can access from anywhere in the country.
I used to get 100+ spams/day until I changed my email address by adding a DOT. In your case it would be something like "gareDOTee@heartmagic.com". It is amazing what just one little DOT does, you can even add two to make it way better and is my next move if things get worse. If you do this you won't need spam filter service. It seems that most phishing software can't handle the extra DOT or even a DASH (_). |
Pat Bartlett (Muddog16)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 3:42 am: | |
I've been using Norton Internet Security 2005 and now 2006 which was very inexpensive. In the last two years I haven't received a single pop up advertisemtnt! Before that it was terrible I couldn't go anywhere without those. A huge difference. It is also a very good anti virus program that automatically updates its self when you are on line without being disruptive! The anti spam settings are simple to use and easy to set up. It also gives intrusion alerts and recommends what you should do with each alert.
Pat |