Speaking of spam, I have got to do something. This morning I had 10,000 spam messages, and I am going to not get anything done today but delete spams from my box. I am using Netscape and eudora for my mail, and I need a good spam buster. The server has spam assissian on it, but even at 90% effectiveness I still get over 1,000 through it over a weekend. It seems that every time I look for a good spam program they tell me I have to switch to outlook for my mail client, but there is no way I am trading spam for viruses and worms, I would rather deal with the spam.
Any suggestions? Marshall "M. G. Devour" wrote: > Hi everybody! Your list owner is ON THE JOB!!! > > Okay, when one of these investment posts came through from somebody > calling themselves [email protected], I figured that a member thought it > was interesting and sent it along. It would have been nice if they had > said something so we knew why they wanted to post it, but, in fact, it > was talking about using ozone for food sanitation... a relatively > obvious alternative health reference. > > Then a *second* copy comes under a different Subject line, from the > same address. Now this starts looking like SPAM. > > So I went and checked the subscriber file and we don't even *have* a > [email protected] ... and when you think about it the odds of anyone > even having an address like b...@... from any large domain is pretty > much nil. I'm sure [email protected] was taken the first day verizon was > handing out userid's, probably to an employee, and that person is > unlikely to be a member here. It's most likely a forgery. > > Digging a bit deeper, it turns out these *were* spam, and they got > posted because we have an extremely similar user name already > subscribed, and I had the threshold for accepting submissions set to > "tight" but not "exact," and that was good enough to let it through. > > I've changed it now so the list server requires an *exact* match to the > subscriber list entry. I hope this won't cause anyone a problem > posting. If that happens, let me know. My personal e-mail address is in > the footer at the bottom of every list message. > > Thought you'd all like to know... <GRIN> > > Be well, > > Mike D. > list security guard... <sigh> > > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > Date forwarded: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:47:20 -0800 > From: "Bill" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date sent: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:47:19 -0500 > Forwarded by: [email protected] > Send reply to: [email protected] > Subject: CS>Investors profit on last minute trading > > [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] > > Ticker Symbol: PDSC.PK Buy Aggressively > > Last Trade: 0.082 > AVG Vol: 1,107,198 > Short Term Target: +0.67 > Long Term Target: +2.00 > > We believe serious news is on the horizon that can blow the lid off the > stock like a powder-keg > > PDSC is poised to be the standard for the multi-billion dollar food > safety industry. Its food sanitation process improves organic and > non-organic foods. Billions of American, and International, consumers > will receive quality, non-toxic, fresh fruits, vegetables and meats. > > An estimated 76 million Americans suffer from food-borne illnesses > every year, an issue which concerns food producers, processors and > retailers. > > [the rest deleted...] > > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > > [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] > [[email protected] ] > [Speaking only for myself... ] > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > > The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
