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Thread: Spam And Deleting Users
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6th April 2005, 09:30 AM #61
I use ebay a bit and don't attribute spam to it.
Don't get viagra spam - don't need the stuff anyway.
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6th April 2005, 10:58 AM #62Senior Member
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Originally Posted by echnidna
It does seem more than coincidental that the spam tapered off as soon as I wound down my ebay selling activities. The other evidence for it being ebay related is that I have several email addresses and use the one that was targeted only for this forum and ebay. I had already ruled out this forum for the reasons that Neil enumerated.
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Coldamus
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6th April 2005, 11:32 PM #63
Me, too, I've also been getting the Viagra type spams, so I thought "What the heck, I'll order some". Anyway, the stuff seems pretty damn good.
What I've been doing is, due to my life long struggle with poor memory I've been prescribed Ginseng to help improve in that area, so lately I've been mixing the Ginseng with equal parts Viagra, and no kidding, immediately I began thinking harder than I ever have.
Serious. True story.
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7th April 2005, 12:46 AM #64Originally Posted by Dusty
Richard
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7th April 2005, 07:41 AM #65
Richard, are you familiar with light hearted humour? T'was only a joke.
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7th April 2005, 09:14 AM #66
Sorry to burst your bubble folks but you will ALL be getting spam...... It just isn't getting through to your computers as in most cases it will be caught at the point of entry by your ISP.
Coldamus - The most likely reason why it tapered off after eBay will be because your server caught a few new ones that had slipped through the net.
I choose to monitor the spam myself with a program called Spam Bully. We can receive up to 400 or more spams a day all of which could have been pulled out before they arrived at the computer, however point of entry deletion can also grab good emails and delete them as well, meaning you may miss important message from someone.
We regularly monitor the Spam file and often will pull out as many as 4 or 5 emails that weren't spam. Once retrieved they can be marked as good emails and allowed to come through to the inbox in future. Our way isn't infallible as a few intended emails still go missing especially after returning from a WWW Show or similar to around 3,000 bits of spam. We then dump the lot and hope there wasn't anything too important in there.
A lot of emails that end up in the spam file are from members of these forums that have no subject in the email or have re: as the subject, these are typical spam ploys and are usually taken out by most spam filters. For this reason alone I often wonder just how many good emails disappear at the server never to be seen by the intended recipient.
Rant mode off.
Cheers - Neil
PS Personally I reckon the mongrels that perpetuate spam, be it on the internet or over the phone or fax should all be soundly beaten and flushed down the to a sewer somewhere away from society. Yeah, a bit harsh, I know......... Oh well it's probably better than
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7th April 2005, 09:47 AM #67
pity we couldnt set it up so that the spammers automatically respond to other spammers points of sale. End result we would see spammers spamming spammers.
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7th April 2005, 01:26 PM #68
"pop" the sound of my bubble bursting, thanks Neil.
Does this mean the email notifying me of my lottery win probably went west?
Well why did the one telling me I'd won the Nigerian Lottery, just send all your money, get through?Boring signature time again!
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7th April 2005, 01:55 PM #69
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7th April 2005, 01:59 PM #70
And guess what? Most of 'em are Americans :eek:
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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