Marshall, I found the best cure is to change your email address and only give it out to selected people. Better is to have 2 email addresses - one for your regular close network of friends and coworkers, the other one to use where there is a risk of it getting sold to spammers. Changing the latter when you start getting spam again is no big deal & doesn't require notifying many people. --Steve Y. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Dudley" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 8:24 AM Subject: Re: CS>[List Owner] Investment spam posts?
> 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]> > > > > > > >
