posted on November 14, 2000 10:10:58 AM
Thanks to everyone for the great tips!
loosecannon is my dear hubby, and thinks that everything that comes in for me is SPAM!! I have made a couple of new rules up, and hope this helps cut down on the MASSIVE amount of deleting he must do. (lol!)
It is a good thing I don't forward my Hotmail here, huh?
posted on November 14, 2000 05:29:21 PM
"what are spammers thinking? Is this, in any fashion, a sucessful marketing strategy? "
Most of them make money off the SENDING of the spam ... scamming one internet newbie after another into believing that email ads will be appreciated by the recipients, collecting their fees by Money Order sent to a PO box and leaving as few traces as possible for the angry victim to trace.
If I get a spam and find a newbie has been scammed, I tell them to do a charge back on their credit card because my name was not the name of someone who is "interested" in getting ads for anything. If they paid by CC, they usually do it.
posted on November 14, 2000 08:29:29 PM
To lessen the spam I post email addresses with two free web mail sites that will automatically forward web mail to my principal POP mail account to list on eBay, groups and Usenet.
If one account gets spammmed too much I just close the account and start over with a new account.
Bigfoot and Icqmail, presently forward mail for free. Only trusted persons and companies get the POP mail account.
I also use ICQ to check mail before I download it on my computer. It works like POP3 Scan Mail Box. You can preview and delete mail without ever downloading it. This is a practise I started after a spammer mailbombed a web email account with approx. 20 000 emails in retaliation for sending a complaint to his ISP. It seems the ISP was in with the spammer and set up the [email protected] email account to return an indefinite amount of emails to the complainer stating delivery of the complaint email failed, would retry in one second. The web mail account was closed to protect the resources of the web mail ISP. I had to contact them later to reopen the account.
posted on November 14, 2000 08:40:32 PM
I have been getting a lot of spam, apparently from someone scavenging ebay for names. I get some pseudo-ebay announcements, which is how I figure this. The volume of spam seriously increased with the fake ebay stuff, too.
One problem I've had is having a couple of bidders spam block me. Allegedly their ISP is blocking ALL incoming email from my ISP. In some cases it looks suspiciously like deadbeats trying to beat the system. See my other thread on this.
