Re: Why junk email will NEVER go away.
jdiebremse wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Gary Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Last April, I created an email address to use for my mom at H & R Block. I only used that address for that one specific reason. I never posted it or used it for ANYTHING else. Since April, that email address has received just under 3000 pieces of spam. Isn't it also possible that a bulk program sending e-mail to random combinations of characters also hit you? JDG That's what happens with our domain a lot Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Why junk email will NEVER go away.
- Original Message - From: "jdiebremse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:52 PM Subject: Re: Why junk email will NEVER go away. >Isn't it also possible that a bulk program sending e-mail to random >combinations of characters also hit you? Those of us who own websites certainly know what those look like. Since Gary sells domain names, I would think he could recognize the difference between randomly generated emails and targetted emails. I know that the spam I get through my websites are almost always the nonsensical garbage that is sent mainly to see if it has hit a "good" email address. I always bounce it back via Mailwasher, so I rarely see a coherent sentence in any of the spam from amycd.com. With my regular email I almost always get advertisments who got my email from someplace where I signed up for something or another. When I do get a fishing (not to be confused with phishing) email it usually refers to me by an incorrect name, which is a certain tipoff that it is a random mass mailer. I find that bouncing them back does help to keep the volume down. xponent Dot Com Suckage Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Why junk email will NEVER go away.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Gary Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last April, I created an email address to use for my mom at H & R Block. I > only used that address for that one specific reason. I never posted it or > used it for ANYTHING else. Since April, that email address has received > just under 3000 pieces of spam. Isn't it also possible that a bulk program sending e-mail to random combinations of characters also hit you? JDG ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Why junk email will NEVER go away.
On 11/14/06, Gary Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Last April, I created an email address to use for my mom at H & R Block. I only used that address for that one specific reason. I never posted it or used it for ANYTHING else. Since April, that email address has received just under 3000 pieces of spam. I emailed H&R block security with a complaint, and their response was that when I checked the box and agreed to their terms of service, I agreed to allow them to "share" my email address with "carefully selected partners". I guess their carefully selected partners all sell sex aids, diet patches and everything else you see in typical spam. So, that made me go look at other online agreements at places I do business with like Chase bank, credit card companies and so forth. EVERY single company has that clause in their online terms of service that indicate they can share your information with selected partners. Spam will NEVER stop because companies will always share your email address with their partners. Unfortunately, in the case of H&R Block, their carefully selected partners really meant whoever pays us the most for our client list. If you doubt this, go to any company you do business with and somewhere buried in their terms of service or privacy statement will be the clause allowing them to share you information. The irony here is that Gmail tagged your email as spam. ~maru I have plenty of spam, along with some spam (on spam), spammy spam ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Why junk email will NEVER go away.
On 14 Nov 2006 at 23:38, Gary Nunn wrote: > > Last April, I created an email address to use for my mom at H & R Block. I > only used that address for that one specific reason. I never posted it or > used it for ANYTHING else. Since April, that email address has received > just under 3000 pieces of spam. Yep. That was a mistake - there are sites and programs which you can use to create an email address active ONLY for x emails. For the rest, I run my own domain for quite a few reasons. (Any old timers might remember I offered @upliftwar.com emails, that still stands). I personally chose to do my spam filtering client side, and Pegasus Mail now has an inbuilt baesian filter as well as the powerful rules- based filtering it's had for some time. AndrewC Dawn Falcon ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Why junk email will NEVER go away.
Last April, I created an email address to use for my mom at H & R Block. I only used that address for that one specific reason. I never posted it or used it for ANYTHING else. Since April, that email address has received just under 3000 pieces of spam. I emailed H&R block security with a complaint, and their response was that when I checked the box and agreed to their terms of service, I agreed to allow them to "share" my email address with "carefully selected partners". I guess their carefully selected partners all sell sex aids, diet patches and everything else you see in typical spam. So, that made me go look at other online agreements at places I do business with like Chase bank, credit card companies and so forth. EVERY single company has that clause in their online terms of service that indicate they can share your information with selected partners. Spam will NEVER stop because companies will always share your email address with their partners. Unfortunately, in the case of H&R Block, their carefully selected partners really meant whoever pays us the most for our client list. If you doubt this, go to any company you do business with and somewhere buried in their terms of service or privacy statement will be the clause allowing them to share you information. _ The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically correct. ~ Quotes you'll never hear on Star Trek. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
