photosensitive
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posted on August 7, 2004 06:06:37 AM new
My email comes through my domain account and there are no spam filters at the mailbox level. My email program does a pretty good job of sending spam to a junk folder but a few slip into the mailbox every day. Until a few days ago I received at least 400 to 600 spam messages a day into my junk folder. I could see them flashing by in my activity bar and emptied the folder several times a day. Earlier this week I began to notice that some of them had [SPAM] in front of the subject. Now I don't think any spammer would put that in the subject line of their own accord. I then noticed that I was getting fewer and fewer emails in my junk folder or in my in box. I am down from over 400 to 600 to maybe 100 a day. Has anyone else noticed a drop? Anyone else getting [SPAM] in front of subjects? Nice change, wonder if it will last.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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CBlev65252
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posted on August 7, 2004 06:13:04 AM new
Not here. For the first month of my new service I got no spam. Suddenly, this past week has been loaded with it. I block and bounce more times a day than I can tell you. I'm sick to death of it.
Cheryl
. . .if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist- I really believe he is Antichrist- I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend.. . - War and Peace, Tolstoy
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OhMsLucy
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posted on August 7, 2004 06:26:29 AM new
I haven't seen any with [SPAM] in the subject but then I don't get very much spam. Maybe 1-2 a day. I noticed a drop when AOL's latest version came out.
I'm glad you're seeing a drop. 100 a day would make me nuts!
Lucy
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toasted36
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posted on August 7, 2004 06:31:36 AM new
I get [spam] in front of mine photosensitive ,it's from my 2004 Pc-Cillin. So it may be your virus protection your getting it from.
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photosensitive
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posted on August 7, 2004 10:33:37 AM new
OhMsLucy, 100 is such an improvement that I am happy with it.
Toasted, it can not be from PC-cillian because I am on a Mac. I just ran my Norton virus checker last week but I don't keep it running automatically because I have some problems with my Virtual PC when I do. At this time there is no need to do so on a Macintosh because it is wonderfully virus free. And it is not because (as tomwii claims) that no one uses a Mac.
When I look at the source on these emails there is a "X-Spam-Flag: YES" in the headers that is not on those without. Right now I am just hoping that the drop in volume continues.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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sanmar
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posted on August 7, 2004 10:51:05 AM new
I get almost no spam!! Between Verizon DSL's spam filter & Norton Internet Security spam filter I rarely see any in my email, maybe 2 or 3 a week in my Spam Box. These do not show up in my email. The only ones that bug me are the letters from Africa promisng me millions just use my "goog Name & bank account" Oh Yeah in a pigs eye!@
Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine
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jake
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posted on August 7, 2004 10:58:04 AM new
I don't get hardly any spam at all any more. A few weeks ago it all just stopped. One thing I notice is the more ebay activity I have, the more spam I get.
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Kevinatgrannys
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posted on August 7, 2004 11:01:43 AM new
sanmar, I got one close to that this week saying that he would like 100 of XXXXX that I am selling and if I would just give him my bank account # he would transfer the $$ plus freight to my account. Very broken English and bounced through at least 3 places before reaching me. So, of course I sent him all of my cc numbers, bank account numbers and my home address and everything else I could think of. (NOT!!) I really wonder how many people fall for this sort of thing??
Kevin
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photosensitive
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posted on August 7, 2004 12:09:17 PM new
When I was using my Verizon account for mail I got almost no spam but they made a change and would no longer let me send mail with my domain return address so I changed over to my domain pop accounts. I have several pop mail boxes and I want to be able to hit "reply" and have it go back with the address that was used by the sender. After a security change last year I could not find any way to do this with Verizon. My domain accounts have no frills so I have been stuck with the multi-hundred spams every day until this past week. I did update my Norton anti-virus and run one scan with it but I did not expect it to have any long term effect. Hummm! wonder if it did?
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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stonecold613
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posted on August 7, 2004 10:22:40 PM new
The {SPAM} is from your e-mail domain. At work, our domain puts that flag on all e-mails it feels could be spam as a fore-warning. Then you can decide if it really is.
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