right. They deliberately make it hard to block, with stuff like fe11atio and "sex" where the e is a special character. Which I don't understand. If I am taking the trouble to block the mail then I must not be a prospective customer. Unless the theory is that there is a spouse or child that might be interested in spite of me.
Josh Remus writes: > That won't do any good. I'm still bouncing that sort of junk from accounts > that have been bouncing for 3 years or more. There's no real cost for the > spammer associated with bounces (since typically they bounce to an invalid > email address anyway), so they never clean their lists. > > Best you can hope for is a comprehensive set of antispam filters on your > mail server. Still won't get everything though. > > And they get smarter. I block just about anything that has a subject or > body that contains certain words. They just spell them differently now, so > I have to block those. My favorite is \/iagra. > > Changing your email address altogether will fix it if you're careful. But > lists like these, as well as usenet and forms are good places for spammers > to pick up addresses. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:16 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: WTF :)Fw: PLEASE REPLY ! > > > I get mail I never signed up for. Not from e-Diets, mind you, they seem to > have missed me so far. But I get extremely graphic and offensive > solicitations to watch twosomes and threesomes, not all of them human, and > I can assure you that I have NEVER indicated an interest in anything of the > kind. Worse, this mail is always sent from different email addresses and > with different subject lines so filtering it is a waste of time. I do get > plenty of other spam. I made the mistake of expressing an interest in > printer cartridges once about three years ago, and I am still getting mail > over it.... but that mail at least I can kill with filters. The other stuff > -- the best solution I can come up with is to have my isp pull my email > account for about a month. Hopefully these guys will weed their bouncing > emails in that time. But I do resent having to do so. > > Nick McClure writes: > > > But if you visited another site and signed up for offers from their > > partners, then that would change that. > > > > Can you honestly say that you have never accidentally clicked that box, > > or forgot to uncheck it? Or never completely read the terms of > > everything you have ever used your e-mail for. > > > > Unless you read 100% of the fine print you don't know what you have > > signed up for. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:39 AM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: RE: WTF :)Fw: PLEASE REPLY ! > > > > > > I can only say that I've received eDiets marketing email and I've > > never > > > visited the eDiets site and have never opted in. That, without a > > doubt, is > > > spam. It doesn't matter if it came from eDiets server's or from those > > of a > > > hired marketing company. > > > > > > Sorry Bill. I know that your employers were there for you in a tight > > spot, > > > and I know you aren't in marketing, but that doesn't change my opinion > > of > > > them as a spammer. > > > > > > As for SPEWS, I don't know what to think. I know that spam/UCE is a > > HUGE > > > problem and it appears that unfortunately it will take some extreme > > > measures > > > to combat it. When I got back from a vacation I did a count and 75% of > > the > > > mail at my work account was spam and 100% at my personal account with > > over > > > 100 messages. IMHO, spammers negatively impact many millions of more > > > people > > > than SPEWS does. And yes, we've been blacklisted. > > > > > > -Kevin > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
