The SPAM is killing me

[Flynn]

Quote from mail2smitty:

As for a counter-attack, just create a new email address, then fill up the mail box COMPLETELY for the old one. Alot of spam is mailed from addresses that exist only long enough to email the crap out. If your box is full, a reply is immediately sent upon receipt stating such - counter attack. After that happens for awhile they tend to remove your email from the rotation. I just switch back and forth between a couple different Outlook style addresses doing the above when the spam gets over-bearing.
smitty

Something like that could be done by MailWasher. You can bounce spam back to sender saying your mailbox doesn't exist. But this way to fight spam is not very efficient.
Main problem with spam is that spammers never send messages from their own mailboxes. They use open reley servers and put in "from" field just any email adress. So the person who will receive bounced smap never sent it. Sometimes I receive spam even from myself! That's strange but it's true. Most efficient way to block spam is to create rules using key words.

 

[SilverDelta]

I'd suggest trying a piece of software called "Qurb," at www.qurb.com. It plugs into Outlook (and also Outlook Express, I believe), and seamlessly routes your suspected spam to another folder. It works incredibly well, and for those who like full control over their email, I believe it's the best solution for spam.

I believe it has a licensing fee, but you can try it for free.

Silver

 

[mktman]

Just "do" the slut and maybe all of it will cease.

LOL

mktsurf

 

[Kicking]

I don't get this guys. I never get any kind of spam. Never used Outlook either, only webbased email accounts(whole bunch of them depending on whom I give them to). Bungrider , I think you must have registered on porn sites hence all the obscene stuff you are getting. eVEN LEGIT SITES MIGHT GIVE YOUR ADDRESS TO SPAMMERS. Also Personals send you that kind of shit (the horny slut bored at home), Personals are full of spammers. I sometims wonder how many of these ads on Yahoo! for ex.are genuine and how many are just posted by the site operators.

 

[Kicking]

Quote from Scientist:

You only have so much time in your life - don't waste a second of it to unauthorized people, or you'll never get anywhere.

-S

this has gotta be the quotation of the day

 

[CalTrader]

Quote from Baron:

Recently my computer blew up so I got a new machine with Office 2003 and Windows XP preinstalled. The MS Outlook that comes in Office 2003 does a really good job at filtering out junk mail. It doesn't catch all of it, but it does catch most.

Here is another really simple solution: Dont give out an email address that is to be used for useful communications. In fact my email address is filtered at our server - rather than by my mail client. The server simply looks up a database to see if the incoming email address is on an allowed list: if not it is simply deleted immediately: nobody ever sees it.
Result: Zero Spam and many useful communications - the way email is supposed to work.........

 

[Free Thinker]

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[garyk]

Another good method: It's likely that your ISP issues an address which is essentially your account number and cannot be changed. My approach is to make that address as long, complex and random as I can, then NEVER give it out to anyone. So long as the ISP doesn't sell the customer list, any mail coming to that address should be only customer communications from the ISP, or spam which is based on randomly generated addresses.

Create additional accounts (my ISP allows 7 total), allocate some of them to real mail (family & friends), and never give those to a business or web site. It should take a long time for these to start getting spam.

Create a couple of others (on your ISP or Hotmail-type accounts) just for commercial uses, for business and web sites. Be ready to change this last group often.

Gary

 

[dougcs]

I am using the beta of Cloudmark's SpamNet for Outlook
express, and it is excellent.

www.cloudmark.com

Bloomba/saproxy is also very good.

http://www.statalabs.com/

Both use Bayesian logic and place spam into a separate folder. The user community "votes" on what is spam. So far very little is getting to my inbox.

DS

 

[CalTrader]

Quote from dougcs:

....Both use Bayesian logic and place spam into a separate folder. The user community "votes" on what is spam. So far very little is getting to my inbox.

DS

You dont need anything more complicated than a simple routine on the email server(s) that only delivers email from approved addresses. Its that simple. No "pattern matching", "bayesian", or "string theory" necessary. Just a simple, common-sense process in place at your company solves all these problems easily and costs next to nothing to implement.