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Re: OT:Email Spam

Posted by Adrian A on 11/14/06 10:39

Dragon wrote:
> "P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4rsia3Fsnk1rU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Andrew wrote:
>>>> Has anoyone else noticed a huge increase in spam in the last 6
>>>> months?.
>>>> I'm having to delete tons of stuff with mailwasher compared to 6
>>>> months ago. Why doesn't someone do something about these bloody
>>>> idiots. Its the same people/emails over and over again. It's
>>>> getting bloody ridiculous
>>>>
>>>> /rant over
>>
>> Absolutely - 100-150 pieces a day, at the moment. I've never tried
>> mailwasher, but use Outlook 2003. It has a "junk mail" folder which
>> really works incredibly well. I always have a quick glance down the
>> contents of the junk mail folder before empyting it, and I find that
>> virtually no "proper" mail gets dumped in there by mistake, and only
>> perhaps one or two pieces of spam find their way into the normal
>> Inbox. This sort of detection rate makes the spam even more bloody
>> pointless...
>>
>> paul
>
> Since using mailwasher I think I am getting more, I think when I
> bounce back to them it encourages them to send me more. I hope this
> isn't true but yes there is alot more out there.
>
> Dave

You should never bounce the spam, 90% of the time it doesn't come from the
address it appears to so you're bouncing it to an inocent user.
--
Adrian

 

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