>Response from MacDuff >Use a Hotmail account for the crap. Or something on Yahoo, although I understand they too are rather well infected with problems. >Now, this would be an interesting experiment: > >You can have up to five Sympatico email accounts with your plan. So, create >an additional Sympatico account... AND DO NOTHING WITH IT. See if any >garbage winds up in THAT Inbox!
I set up another account two days past, and did as suggested.. BINGO, some twenty e-mails form where ever, all spam, And the one address I did was a combination of random numbers and letters. Interesting eh? >From: Mary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: firewall to combat spam >> >So, you have only had your @sympatico address for a few weeks? Yes had interlynx befoire and most of thetime never had a problem. >>Since I have gone to Sympatico, the amount of spam has increased >horribly. [snip] Out of say 100 e-mails, over 75 are spam. You name it >the spam ist here. > >Is the Spam you are referring to coming to your @sympatico address? If >so, I find this very curious. Ordinarily, after getting a new email >address, a user will get very little (often, zero) Spam at the new >address for a good long while. By taking a few, simple anti-Spam >precautions, that period can be extended to several years. Yes, almost within days, as if my address was honey on bread attracting bees (spam) > >If you are getting a lot of Spam to a new email address, I'd say that you >have done something highly unusual to allow Spammers access to your address. Part of the problem I suspect is where said addres is posted. I write a number of railfan columns for a number of US and foreign magazines. On "their" websites my e-mail address has to be posted, for enquiries and such. I suspect that is how my address got bandied about. >BTW, Sympatico does filter your mail (before you see it) for Spam. You >may want to visit their website and check your options for this. It is >"on" by default, I believe. Well as to the spam, see below about how I could eliminate same... > >Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 17:31:05 -0400 >Subject: Re: Firewall to combat spam >From: Christian Dupuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 01:24 PM, Mac Canada wrote: > >From: "Bryce Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: firewall to combat spam > >> Since I have gone to Sympatico, the amount of spam has increased >> horribly. > >Welcome to Sympatico. For the record, they've been absolutely negligent >in protecting their SMTP servers for spam distribution over the last >year or so. I've been a Sympatico user for close to six years now, and >my Sympatico account only became a serious SPAM conduit over the last >eight months or so. Shortly before they started selling PC security and >anti-spam software on their site, coincidentally... > >> I even put a false address in for my web browser as I figured that was >> where most of >> the spammers weregetting my e-mail address. > >Nope. I figure they haven't secured their SMTP account list properly >Which would explain their disclaimers on data security I suspect as suggested, Sympatico has REMOVED any form of filtering to all accounts and will only re-apply IF the subscriber is willing to pay that additional charge for same. As much as standard telephone subscribers and finding a "network charge" applied to their phone bills in Ontario and Quebec to sustain rural system s and allow them to upgraded. >> Out of say 100 e-mails, over 75 are spam. You name it the spam ist= >> here. >> Now granted I do >> a lot of web browsing, and yes some sites are not what clean living >> people might enjoy; >> however the increase is beyond belief. > >Geez, must be worse in Ontario; mine only generates 15 to 20 per 100 >messages. Mind you, the majority of the spam comes from the US, and >targets the "english speaking clientele". Vive la diffrence. Yes, I suspect the english speaking clientele, as English is the preferred world language, the spam is in said language, a bummer for sure.. >> Yes I can put up some form of jkill file, however the crap still=20 >> flows. > >Use the latest version of Jaguar. Activate your junk mail training >mode, leave it on, oh, about two or three weeks. Identify as much junk >crap as you can, then set the junk mail mode to automatic. See the >stuff disappear before your very eyes. >> Anybody got any suggestions as to a good firewall program, that works, >> and is easy to maintain? > >Are you running X? If so, the built-in OS X one is a good start. As i noted a long while back over on the iMac list I had lotso f problems even understanding OS X and its many variants. Had an emac and basically mangled the programs on it whils trying to understand OSX. So ended losing my shirt, and purchasing an iBook,. granted it has OSX ihding in the back however if I stay in the 9.2.2. camp I have nary a problem. More of a mindset problem (age north of 50, south of 100<g>). and Bryce Lee, Burlington, Ontario Canada eh? -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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