Posted by Andrew on 11/14/06 09:02

"Dragon" <davewhitnospam@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> 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
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> 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

If your boincing back using your own email address probably not a good
idea.
You can change this to bounce back with a different email address

I strongly recommend you dont bounce at all ( i delete) because the email
address they come from
are all bogus and usually they use someone elses genuine email address, who
then receives the bounces. Ive experienced this

To contact the spammers you have to click the link in their emails rather
than reply to their emails directly

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