Category: the Rant Board
Hi all,
All the talk about spam reminds me of my first experience in to the world of spam. I got an email with long time no talk in the subject line, so I thought the sender had made a mistake, cause it sounded like she knew me, yet I knew I didn't know her. The message was talking about some website she thought was cool, and she thought I might like it. she was talking about how she was going to put it on her private sight, so please don't tell anyone. Being the polite person I am in situations like that, I started to reply and tell her she made a mistake, and I wasn't the person she thought I was. The message bounced back, and I thought that was strange since it knows who the email is going to if you use the reply. I called my isp about it, and the guy told me it was spam, and the email address was a phony, and they did that so you'd just click on the link, because that was whatthey wanted you to do. Well, she told me not to tell anyone about the link to that site. I was so mad, I told anyone who would listen what she did. I still don't like spam, and my isp has a firewall called spamjail, and they send out a quaranteen report every month. I always have 50 new messages that the spamjail caught, a lot of them junk, but some aren't. When it tags a message as spam, it puts the word spam in the subject line, so I created a filter in outlook express called junk mail, and set the filter so if the word spam wasin the subject line, they'd go to that folder, but most of them get trapped in quaranteen, and it's a never ending chore telling the spamjail program this is spam, this isn't spam, deleting this, whitelisting that. I just read the from and subject lines to see if it caught any that might not be spam, but someone trying to contact me that I know. then if it's the case, I just go in my quaranteen in box and white list the sender to keep it from tagging their messages as spam.
I don't like spam, but that first experience was the only time I was really mad about it
wonderwoman
HI Wonderwoman,
I have had plenty of experience with spam myself, before I changed my Email address, back in the Summer. Allot of spammers use fake addresses to send out spam. It's actually easy enough to do in outloook express. You should also know in the future, to never reply to a spammer because that tells them that your address is active so they send you more. Even opening a message can alert them to your active address. They put a little graphic, 1 pixel by 1 pixel which no one can really see that is executed by a script that lets the sender know that there's someone there. I had enough of the spam at my ISP so I had my email address changed. Now I don't give my Email address out from my ISP except to people I know.
ON line, I have other email addresses I give out that are easy enough to get rid of, like Yahoo or something like that. I have a couple addresses at a domain we pay for as well where I get newsletters and such at and if the site I'm registering for, is somewhat questionable, I use a yahoo address.
Hi hlast,
I don't blame you. I seem to get more than I use to, but most of them goes in the spam jail quaranteen inbox, but there are at least 2 or 3 here and there it doesn't catch. at least it says spam in the subject line if it catches one. those spam filters aren't too great, it still lets a few here and there slip by, and sometimes it think a legitimate email is spam. Someone I use to talk to on for the people sent me an email, but i didn't find it for several days, because it went in my spam folder, and I don't delete it every day. It didn't have anything in the subject line about advertising anything, she just hi in the subject, so I have no idea why spamjail called it spam.
wonderwoman
Yeah, I hate spam...one time, I was getting all these viruses in my e-mail inbox. Well, I knew they were viruses because it said something like, "...found a virus in the attached file." then, a bunch of stuff that didn't matter to me, then "this file was removed by firewall." then there's the ones that always have "congradulationgs!" in the subject line, then say, "you have won the lotery" or something stupid like that.
I even got one recently claiming to be from e bay, but I know I don't do business with ebay, so I just deleted it. I look for a senders name, and if i don't recognize the sender, I just delete it very quickly.
wonderwoman