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Posted by Dragon on 11/14/06 14:39
Ok guys thanks for the insight turned off the bounce option, know one ever
told me this so I presumed that it was normal
dave
"Dr Zoidberg" <alexNOOOOOO!!!!!!!@drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4rtuh9Fsug58U1@mid.individual.net...
> Andrew wrote:
>> "Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1163496386.7734.0@iris.uk.clara.net...
>>>
>>> "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
>>>
>>> Most of the spam I get nowadays seems to be advice on the US stock
>>> market and for something called Hoodia (?).
>>>
>>> The spam is pretty much the same everyday but the sender varies so
>>> the Outlook "block sender" does work that well
>>>
>>> Tricky
>>
>>
>>
>> Same here.
>> Funny thing is it is clear just a small group of people
>> creating/sending these emails as they are always advertising the
>> same. Why someone can't do something about these people is beyond
>> me.
>
> Because most of the spam is being sent from mal-ware infested desktop PCs
> throughout the globe
>
>> I remember reading an article from a guy who said the only way to stop
>> spammers is to charge everyone for send an email in the same way you
>> charge to send a letter, example charge 1p per email.
>> I laughed when i read it, and of course it will never happen, but to
>> be honest, all this spam pisses me off so much i'd gladly pay 1p for
>> every email i sent out if it would teach the spammers a lesson.
>
> That might work if email could only be sent from a certain number of
> places but you can just have an smtp engine on your pc that lets you send
> mail directly from there
> --
> Alex
>
> "I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"
>
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>
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