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[OT] HELP!
It seems I'm being trageted by Spammers pushing Human Growth
Hormones. I WANT THIS TO STOP! How do I do something about it? -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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first check your isp to see if they have free spam delete thingy working.
i had to ask for it to be set on my email acct. when i started going from a few spams a day to over 300 a day all in the space of a couple of days, after a week i was going bonkers and not very quietly either i might add. i changed my email addy (my isp lets us use up to five email addys, luckily i had stuck with the one for 4.5yrs) and am now extra careful where i use it. i also use mailwasher. www.mailwasher.net with mailwasher i can preview and either bounce or delete after i see who they're from. i was bouncing a lot and then realized it was pointless as so many spammers use bogus return addys and the bounce comes back to me as undeliverable. arghhhh. now i just delete, delete, delete. so few now. have you recently subscribed to something online that is outside the norm? some places sell their addy list. anything i'm unsure of i use the yahoo addy. then if it is spam i just hit the yahoo spam button and let them deal with it. so far so good. sorry, not much help but the best i could think of. i hope someone here has some better info for you. hugz from across the ditch, jeanne -- http://community.webshots.com/user/nzlstar real reply is san-fran at ihug dot co dot nz "melinda" wrote... It seems I'm being trageted by Spammers pushing Human Growth Hormones. I WANT THIS TO STOP! How do I do something about it? -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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nzl* wrote:
first check your isp to see if they have free spam delete thingy working. i had to ask for it to be set on my email acct. ISP uses spam assasin(IIRC), which is set on our accounts with a low tolerance but these are getting through because they seem to addressed to me. when i started going from a few spams a day to over 300 a day all in the space of a couple of days, after a week i was going bonkers and not very quietly either i might add. i changed my email addy (my isp lets us use up to five email addys, luckily i had stuck with the one for 4.5yrs) and am now extra careful where i use it. i also use mailwasher. www.mailwasher.net with mailwasher i can preview and either bounce or delete after i see who they're from. i was bouncing a lot and then realized it was pointless as so many spammers use bogus return addys and the bounce comes back to me as undeliverable. arghhhh. now i just delete, delete, delete. so few now. I don't want to have to change my email address, our account allows for several addresses as well, but about half are used already (DH has addresses for business and private). I don't even get to see these emails because DH sends my email through to my computer, so he deletes the junk and spam, but 4 of these things came through yesterday all from different addresses and I think I've been careful with my email address. have you recently subscribed to something online that is outside the norm? some places sell their addy list. anything i'm unsure of i use the yahoo addy. then if it is spam i just hit the yahoo spam button and let them deal with it. so far so good. sorry, not much help but the best i could think of. i hope someone here has some better info for you. hugz from across the ditch, jeanne Not subscribed or unsubscribed, but have done a few unusual google searches... -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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if i think of anything else that might be useful, i'll let ya know.
gawd, i nearly went mad the week i got it. oh wait, i was mad already, ok, just got worse, swore a whole lot more. jeanne -- http://community.webshots.com/user/nzlstar real reply is san-fran at ihug dot co dot nz "melinda" wrote... nzl* wrote: first check your isp to see if they have free spam delete thingy working. i had to ask for it to be set on my email acct. ISP uses spam assasin(IIRC), which is set on our accounts with a low tolerance but these are getting through because they seem to addressed to me. when i started going from a few spams a day to over 300 a day all in the space of a couple of days, after a week i was going bonkers and not very quietly either i might add. i changed my email addy (my isp lets us use up to five email addys, luckily i had stuck with the one for 4.5yrs) and am now extra careful where i use it. i also use mailwasher. www.mailwasher.net with mailwasher i can preview and either bounce or delete after i see who they're from. i was bouncing a lot and then realized it was pointless as so many spammers use bogus return addys and the bounce comes back to me as undeliverable. arghhhh. now i just delete, delete, delete. so few now. I don't want to have to change my email address, our account allows for several addresses as well, but about half are used already (DH has addresses for business and private). I don't even get to see these emails because DH sends my email through to my computer, so he deletes the junk and spam, but 4 of these things came through yesterday all from different addresses and I think I've been careful with my email address. have you recently subscribed to something online that is outside the norm? some places sell their addy list. anything i'm unsure of i use the yahoo addy. then if it is spam i just hit the yahoo spam button and let them deal with it. so far so good. sorry, not much help but the best i could think of. i hope someone here has some better info for you. hugz from across the ditch, jeanne Not subscribed or unsubscribed, but have done a few unusual google searches... -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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nzl* wrote:
if i think of anything else that might be useful, i'll let ya know. gawd, i nearly went mad the week i got it. oh wait, i was mad already, ok, just got worse, swore a whole lot more. BTW, everyone, we use a Linux system.... -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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I got cranky one day and replied to a persistant penis enlarging one. Well I
got 300 in return. So I know replying doesnt work. Good luck trish in Sydney |
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Are you using Optus Mel? If so, I know they have a spam thingy that you can
set because DH did mine. We also use Outlook Express and the spam doesn't even come through to OE - Although I can check it using Webmail in case some regular emails accidently get caught. Also I set up message rules to look for any funny words which works a treat. I send those straight to my deleted box so that I can still check them if I want to. I've gone from about 100 a day to 2. -- Sharon From Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under) http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html "melinda" wrote in message ... It seems I'm being trageted by Spammers pushing Human Growth Hormones. I WANT THIS TO STOP! How do I do something about it? -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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Sharon Harper wrote:
Are you using Optus Mel? If so, I know they have a spam thingy that you can set because DH did mine. We also use Outlook Express and the spam doesn't even come through to OE - Although I can check it using Webmail in case some regular emails accidently get caught. Also I set up message rules to look for any funny words which works a treat. I send those straight to my deleted box so that I can still check them if I want to. I've gone from about 100 a day to 2. Not Optus, a local ISP who is very good. They use spam assasin (IIRC). -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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Go to your server's website and see if they offer better filters. Mine will
sort all incoming mail into folders: "suspected virus" (these I just dump without looking), spam (based on their criteria), and "unknown sender". If I want to accept a particular person's emails automatically, I must enter the address in a file of "accepted addresses". If some spam slips through to the "unknown sender" file, I just tell the server it's spam and it will never happen again. I skim through the spam, because sometimes friends send out mail to lots of addresses at once, which is one of the spam criteria. But mostly everything gets put in the right folder and takes only a second to delete. Then I read the mail I want on OE. Roberta in D "melinda" wrote in message ... It seems I'm being trageted by Spammers pushing Human Growth Hormones. I WANT THIS TO STOP! How do I do something about it? -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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I skim through the spam, because sometimes friends send out mail to lots of
addresses at once, I find that stuff like this from friends also mostly qualifies as spam. If it starts with "Fwd", I almost always delete it without even opening it. Nurse Ratched (remove "cuckoo" from address to reply) If I ever need religion, I'll worship chocolate cake. |
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