Posted by Niall Leonard on 02/28/06 22:30

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:33:16 GMT, DH <nowhere@nohow.com> wrote:

>Owen wrote:
>> Sorry for the OT post but I'm desperate. For several months now I've been
>> bombarded with US-born spam from, among others, the "Donald Trump
>> University" and other such bollocks. All of the spam is from the same
>> company, and ends with a specific messsage declaring "best practices in
>> responsible email marketing" (utter bollocks of course, the only best
>> practice with spam is not to send it to anyone).
>>
>> Here is an image of the annoyance:
>> http://www.binarybaby.co.uk/spam.htm
>>
>> I am *very* careful to keep my email address to myself, so God knows how
>> they got hold of mine, but they have, and they absolutely will not stop
>> spamming me, sometimes between 6 and 10 messages per day.
>>
>> I get spam from *nobody* else, just these fuckwits.
>>
>> Has anyone else been experienced this particularly irritating scourge
>> lately?
>>
>> Can you suggest a way to get rid of it?
>>
>> I've set up Outlook Message Rules but these seem unreliable at best. Any
>> suggestions of good anti-spam software would be welcome. I run ZoneAlarm
>> Pro for my internet security, but annoyingly it doesn't seem to have
>> anti-spam features.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Owen
>>
>>
>>
>
>Mailwasher is pretty good. I used it with my old email addy when I was getting over
>3000 spams a day ! (Business useage had my email just about everywhere). The only
>option is to change addys.

K9 is also good and it's free. You can teach it to spot the spam or
just blacklist the address it's coming from.

http://keir.net/k9.html

nl

email address munged. Replace the ones and chuck out the rubbish to reply.

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