Spam And Deleting Users

[echnidna]

I use ebay a bit and don't attribute spam to it.
Don't get viagra spam - don't need the stuff anyway.

[Coldamus]

I use ebay a bit and don't attribute spam to it.

It may not be as directly related to ebay as that. For example I have dealt with numerous purchasers and sellers on ebay and am now in their address books. They would not be the same buyers and sellers that you dealt with.

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.

regards
Coldamus

[Dusty]

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.

[Daddles]

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.

Dusty, are you familiar with the MEDICAL PROFESSION? :confused:

Richard

[Dusty]

Richard, are you familiar with light hearted humour? T'was only a joke.

[ubeaut]

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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[echnidna]

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.

[outback]

"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?

[AlexS]

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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Personally, I reckon you're too soft on them! :mad:

[silentC]

And guess what? Most of 'em are Americans :eek: