Help! Help! Help!

[zacs]

Here's the deal- On all three of my computers, I have three spam blockers and can't block it all. However, some emails I have don't get any spam at all.

Here are my tips:

*Have an account that you use for signing up for stuff that you don't really care if you see emails from them again. hotmail, gmail, yahoo, or whatever. Once your name is on one list, it is on them all and you are screwed, so funnel the spam to that account.

*If you don't want spam, do not post your email anywhere on the web. These spammers have spiders that crawl the web and look for anything@anything.com, and suck it into a list. Even on message boards like this, if you post your email you are asking for spam.

*Use a not so guessable email adress. I think if it is Jim@comcat.com or suzy1975@ao1.com, you are screwed these guys have programs that just take every name, and number combination at every domain (aol, cox, hotmail, etc...) and just run their computers to spam the hell out of them. computers are powerfull machines, and can generate thousands if not hunrededs of thousands of emails per hour. for example, my last name is long and german. my first initial and last name at cox.net does not get one single piece of spam. however, i have another adress that is my first name and the number 22 @cox.net, and it gets spam all the time.

*Never reply to the bottom of true spam saying you don't want it. If it is from a legit company like Cabellas, or Kodak or something, where they actually identify themselves, then it is ok to click on the bottom.

Those are tips to try and live a spam free life.

_Z_

[JohnR]

What Zac & TDF said....

I would add that it is a good practice not to forward those "And send to Ten Freinds or the miracle won't happen" e-mails as they do little more than generate massive address lists.. The Internet is 75% crap, 25% good - and the ratio is just getting worse....

I get several HUNDRED spams a day. My e-mail address is obviously well know thru these sites.

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by zacs

If it is from a legit company like Cabellas, or Kodak or something, where they actually identify themselves, then it is ok to click on the bottom._Z_

I still wouldn't click on the Bottom link....Give me 2 minutes and I can send you an e-mail from Cabelas.com. I can be anybody I want on outgoing e-mail. Also just because the link on the surface says the proper address doesn't mean it actually is going to the proper company.

I definitely agree with the 2nd addy for registering for things on the internet.. Thats what yahoo is for....once you start getting inundated w/ SPAM just throw it away and get a new one

[zacs]

OK, I guess that is true. What I mean, if it is obviously & I mean obviously from cabellas or amazon or Southwest airlines, or somewhere you know you have bought somehthing, and the email is cleary from them, with the catalog pictures, and whatnot, and when you click on the reply here to send an unsubscribe email and it is definately sending it to xxx@cabellas.com then send it in. Otherwise, be safe and just delete.

I was thinking about this more, and there must be some hardcore corporate spam blockers that maybe are big $$ or something, because at my old job and at my new job I got/get no spam. Zero. well, at my old job, which I had for 7 years, maybe one a month would slip through. And my email was on the coroporate website.

i don't know, maybe they only target the comercial ISPs, cox.net, aol.com, hotmail.com, adelphia.net, etc...

Gmail also does a nice job of filtering spam.

[Raven]

when i message source some of the spam email i recieve, i have noticed that up to 25 or more different names have recieved the same email that all begin
with RA__ (short for raven) ..... dot. ISP so it seems they have got the isp's whole friggan list of customers... and if they are coming from say italy. i ban italy.... hong kong , i ban hong kong....