SPAM and more SPAM

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It's about time Hotmail was updated as I know a number of people who have used it and set up accounts using obviously fake details and then spamming either old work places or people that they don't like!!

 

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That reminds me - at work I keep getting text only emails by the bucket loads and I don't seem to be able to stop them. There is no link on them to unsubscribe and when I reply to the email with unsubscribe in the address it is rejected. Can anyone help me get rid of these as I get around 20 a day and it's really starting to bug me!!!

 

I Get Alot of these Text only emails too, as yet i have not found a way to stop them but i will let you know if i do

Derek :multi

 

I use Incredimail which lets you view all your mails on the server prior to downloading, so you can delete all spam or suspicious mails before recieving to your inbox.

 

I Believe, and correct me if i am wrong rosie, the messages in question are the same as the ones received when some one net sends you

Derek

 

Yeah, I'm using Mailwasher too, ut even tho' you can bin messages from the server, it doesn't seem to actually stop them over time, so I'm not too sure of the point of the "bounce" feature.

Still, beats having to bring them down first !

 

A report in Computer Weekly this week stated that 46% of all e-mail sent was considered spam. This makes almost every other e-mail unwanted and unsolicited. Something is going to have to be done soon before this "kills off" e-mail

 

Couldn't agree more with you guys, the ISP's need to pull there finger out of there arse's and spend some of the money they take from us and put it into combating spam

 

I am a Mailwash user

Mr Gates e-mailed me a few days ago to say that MS & the major ISP's are going to do someting about it soon.

Considering the majority of spam I get is either cheap Viagra or some amazing drug to give you a larger willy there are some sad people (man) about!

 

These text-only emails are at work and our stuff is hosted out on UKhosts - can I do anything about them?

PS McSmoothie - are they trying to tell you something do you think???!!!

 

I use JB Mail and just delete the spam on the server before using Outlook to bring home the mail. It's free and works well. Some info from their blurb:

"Security and Privacy. JBMail uses smart technology choices to eliminate the security and privacy hazards found in other mail clients, without sacrificing interoperability. For instance, HTML is stripped to plain text and not rendered.

Full SSL/TLS support. Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security use state-of-the-art encryption to protect POP3 and SMTP communications from eavesdropping and spoofing. Provided by the industry standard OpenSSL.

Virus protection. Multiple levels of defense against viruses, worms and trojans. Safety features include a file block list and executable file SanityCheck.

Junk mail filtering. JBMail includes powerful junk/spam filtering capabilities, including whitelist and blacklist, heuristic custom filters, and even header pattern matching.

Portability. Fits on a floppy disk; no install required. No local mail storage, and no registry keys created. Messages can be viewed and saved/archived in plain text format to guarantee cross-client and cross-platform compatibility.

Efficiency. Header-based POP3 access lets you read and delete mail directly on server without downloading everything. Light-weight software is nimble even on old computers!

Supports POP3 and SMTP; MIME; base64 and UUencoded attachments; ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) Western European characters; and many other standard features."

Regards,
Steve

 

We are both quite happy with the size of things!

 

Thanks Andrew,

I feel soo much better after that (although I never hear the Missus J say that !!!)

Maybe I'm just using aged caffeine

 

Deff agreed, but I always find that by the time I've ground my own beans, I need another nap.

 

Nothing worse than grinding you beans, however, it depends who your grinding them with.