NY Times has an article on spam today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/te...22SPAM.html?th
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/te...22SPAM.html?th
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I know you guys are probably going to laugh at me, but I have been using the free e-mail service from handyhamster.com and I have had it for 2 months now without ANY spam. I thought it was amazing.Comment
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YAHOO say they have the best "spam control" web based E-mail.
I think they are right.
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haha.. sure try and trick us into getting more spam... ;)Originally posted by murakami
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My experience with spamcops is that if you pay them, you do not get listed ....Originally posted by astcell
What about spamcop dot net?
I have had 2 of my mail servers listed with spamcops, and they are a pain in the arse to get de-listed. The good thing about spamcops is they are the toughest group out there. SPEWS is another good one, but when using them as a blacklist database, their server/ database seems to crash alot...
With the 100+ domains and >10,000 e-mail boxes I host, in the last month or 2 I have seen an increase of spam hitting my servers.... my rejections because of blacklist has gone from 70K/day to around 200K/day.... Spammers, I really would love to introduce them to "my little friend" !!!!_____________________
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I found a really easy way of sorting through junk email. If you are using yahoo you can set a filter so if a message contains the word unsubscribe in the body of the text it will put it in a folder marked junk. I think by some law all ads have to have an unsubscribe feature. I had 824 emails in the junk folder when I checked my mail. It worked pretty good.Comment
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Good tip, another one I noticed is that most spam comes in html embedded form. Creating a filter that searches for <HTML> or <DOCTYPE* would also throw many of these into a bin... at least in my world... no one I know uses html embedded email :)Originally posted by encrypt31945
I found a really easy way of sorting through junk email. If you are using yahoo you can set a filter so if a message contains the word unsubscribe in the body of the text it will put it in a folder marked junk. I think by some law all ads have to have an unsubscribe feature. I had 824 emails in the junk folder when I checked my mail. It worked pretty good.Comment
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That works also but it presents the problem of when you sign up for an online service, sometimes they send you an email to activate your acount which is sometimes in html.Comment
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If they do that just sort your spam using time and date and that should smooth that out... That is more like a one time thing :)Originally posted by encrypt31945
That works also but it presents the problem of when you sign up for an online service, sometimes they send you an email to activate your acount which is sometimes in html.Comment
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I see what you mean. Most of the time you go directly to your email anyway to activate it so it would be on the top. Or if you get tons of spam, just near the top.Comment
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Don't know if you all saw this, Slashdot had a post about this study a while back.
http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml
The article is the analysis of a six-month study into how email addresses become targeted for spam. The experimenters gathered a variety of unique email addresses, and then used them in specific ways to see if they wound up on any spam mail lists. One note: their conclusions seem to argue in favor of "opting out" of emails, but I agree with bw, I think it's just email address verification.
A while back I signed up for a new Hotmail account, and the same day I started getting blasted with spam. I just decided not to use it and figured Hotmail was selling their address lists. But later I signed up for a different, more cryptic email address and didn't get any spam. I almost wonder if someone had my first email address before, got it on all the lists, and then let it lapse for poor me to pick up...yahComment
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A few of us use hotmail to send messages internally only... for example from live email to message notification unit to forwarding address... where no one would know the internal address except:Originally posted by euro12
A while back I signed up for a new Hotmail account, and the same day I started getting blasted with spam.
1. The site where the internal email was created (Hotmail)
2. The site that was forwarding the email (Whatever Mail)
... the internal emails are generally non-english such as a guid/uuid... and it gets little squirts of spam here and there...
Either someone or both are selling the internal address, which would mean they are monitoring inbound/outbound emails... or there are some serious bruteforce spambots out there...
regardless another mention for hushmail's encrypted mail notification system :)
https://www.hushmail.com/login.php?subloc=downloadsmn
Hush Secure Mail Notification (SMN).Comment
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