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Can we do anything?
I really don't want to change it, I like it! PS. I don;t use outlook or anything just Webmail - I am always on the go...
Let me know what you are all thinking about this...
PS. Anyone want a RoLeX GoLd or some V$AG)(ra I got an email today selling both...
<joke> WELL THEN <spam product> IS JUST FOR YOU! </joke>
PS. Anyone want a RoLeX GoLd or some V$AG)(ra I got an email today selling both...
Well I can swap them for some hot stock tips!
Seriously, you could try and limit spam by displaying your e-mail address using a javascript solution or just use an online form.
Seriously, you could try and limit spam by displaying your e-mail address using a javascript solution or just use an online form
Will it matter any more? They alread have my Email address on some "Spam this" database.
Yes, What I get is a lot of small print text that converts into an image after its all loaded up and its just an image with a lot of text.
Well it will help prevent your email from being added to even more lists.
Very true... can I still interest you in some cAI$()S?
I remember having 10-15 spams a day. Nowadays I have that many or more every hour of every day, but I rarely see them thanks to a fairly decent spam filter. Whatever else I may think about Y!, the folks who design their filters do a right fair job.
Most days 3 or less get past the gate, while several hundred get nabbed and tucked out of the way to bulkville. As important to me is that it's extremely rare for something to land in bulk that should not be there. Not bad at all on a 9 year address that was not protected in the early days, back when I dinna know it needed protecting and, though quite silly of me, when I believed that clicking on an opt-out link would actually remove me from a list.
back when I dinna know
You Scottish KP? :)
And some of those lines are blocking entire countries and regions, but it still keeps growing.
Those images can be tagged to your email, so the spammers know they've got a live address, which they'll be sure to sell to all their spammer buddies.
Sorry if everybody know that already...
I use Popcorn going straight onto the server and delete the cr@p before it can go any further.
Once one's up to speed it's only a couple of minutes per day, still damned annoying though.
Now, I automate it as much as possible with, at least, four forms of defence. OA Bayesian filter and a banned IP check on the mailserver, at the point of polling I use a blacklist/whitelist filter, with a automatic check against reported spam, then, on the mail client there are further filters, and finally, it's me.
Some stuff still gets through, but then, it's way down on what it used to be. I do let some slip through so I can keep updating my filters. I view this like i'm getting a flu jab to help combat the latest strain going round.
"Leo wrote:" or "Name wrote:",
Those are easy to catch, although there's been a lot recently. It's relatively easy to set up filters on those that are consistent.
I have a fairly comprehensive whitelist, and keep a live blacklist going. Sometimes, certain domains are used all the time, and they simply get added to the blacklist.
The biggest problem with so much filtering is that some good stuff may be getting swallowed up. There's not much I can do about that.
There should be more pressure on the SEC to do something about these cesspool little companies that should have never been public in the first place.
virtually 100% of them are scams.
The company monitored nearly 70bn emails in September and October, and spam levels soared by 59% during that period. The company says that 91% of emails are now spam.
Source: technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1942262,00.html
the latest one being "Leo wrote:" or "Name wrote:"
Yes, I am getting many more of these the past week.
Spam has went up since summer? I wonder if that is 18 year old geeks with nothing more to do with they're time.
Is half these Emails from infected PC's?
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If in a rush I'll do an image version of the email (with no mailto - folk have to manually enter it).
But I'm also seeing more spam email - including lots of emails pretending to be from banks etc. It's a series issue that there isn't really an adequate solution to.
Theres no point in assuming that people should know better. Not everyone has the neceassary range of internet skills, social skills and experience required to be able to work out what's real and what isn't.
With reports of people in call centers both here (UK) and abroad being only too happy to steal and sell your details, things can only get worse - spam email that already includes information about you to make it seem more authentic.
A secure padlocked version of email has to be urgently developed so that people can't falsify email addresses and so that emails can't be read by others. I think that companies should have to sign something which registers their company, logo etc. Then software rewritten to highlight safe company emails. Any company pretending to be someone they aren't (e.g. bank emails, similiar domains etc) could be identified by the public and have their company email licence revoked. Perhaps this could be done at a country level.
Something has to be done about it anyway.
Email should have the potential to replace normal letters through the post. But anyone serious about security - such as banks - are better off just sending out post and telling their users to ignore all emails that appear to come from them in my opinion.
Cabo
A secure padlocked version of email has to be urgently developed so that people can't falsify email addresses and so that emails can't be read by others. I think that companies should have to sign something which registers their company, logo etc. Then software rewritten to highlight safe company emails. Any company pretending to be someone they aren't (e.g. bank emails, similiar domains etc) could be identified by the public and have their company email licence revoked. Perhaps this could be done at a country level.Something has to be done about it anyway.
I quite agree. It is time we all accepted that email in it's current form is broken and that we need a serious rethink of how it works.
Can you buy a block list somewhere? I am getting desperate.
Use of the SBL is free for individuals operating small mail servers as long as your email traffic is low. Commercial users, corporate networks and ISPs need to purchase a yearly subscription to use the service.
Something has to be done about it anyway.
I agree and I cannot for the life of me understand why this has not already happened. You would think that all the brains at companies like Microsoft would be able to come up with a foolproof method of dealing with this.
But then ... perhaps there is a hidden agenda. There are lots of companies making serious money from spam and its side issues.
