Re: Fake email

2004-05-04 Thread darm0k
At 09:44 PM -0600 05/03/2004, Harry D. Corsover wrote: On May 3, 2004, at 9:02 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: Take one days junk and send all of it to you ISP support address, with a letter from you saying I get this everyday, please stop it. If this little mac mail can filter 50 or 200 and miss on

Re: Fake email

2004-05-03 Thread Harry D . Corsover
On May 3, 2004, at 9:02 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: Take one days junk and send all of it to you ISP support address, with a letter from you saying I get this everyday, please stop it. If this little mac mail can filter 50 or 200 and miss one a day, certainly the ISP's can do a better job, if

Re: Fake email

2004-05-03 Thread Geoffrey Loeffler
On May 3, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Harry D. Corsover wrote: On May 3, 2004, at 8:29 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: Running Mail 3.3 it's real good about filtering these out, after about 3 days of training I just let it go, I may have 50 to 60 junk e-mails a day, but there junk and rarely does it mess up

Re: Fake email

2004-05-03 Thread Thomas Ethen
That won't help either, as I have a e-mail address that I have never sent an e-mail from and I still get tons of spam each day. Go figure! Tom > > Actually, that won't get rid of these annoyances unless you never use > the new email address or tell anyone about it (so it never winds up in > the a

Re: Fake email

2004-05-03 Thread Harry D . Corsover
Tom, I think that was just (bad) luck of the draw. Spammers mass mail out to common first names at any domain name they get their hands on. So, if that email address is something like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" they just stumbled upon it. For this reason, many people use non-seq

Re: Fake email

2004-05-03 Thread peter webster
I've been getting these forever--or so it seems--I toss them. Spam like that deserves the Al-Anon approach: I didn't cause it and I can't cure it. That won't help either, as I have a e-mail address that I have never sent an e-mail from and I still get tons of spam each day. Go figure! Tom Actu

Re: Fake email

2004-05-03 Thread Geoffrey Loeffler
I get fake messages from eBay, if I send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems they slow down for awhile, I open the whole header for them, they always write you back and say it was a fake, ya I knew that. Ebay wrote back a few times telling me that a couple messages contained a Trojan Horse and if I

Re: Fake email

2004-05-03 Thread Harry D . Corsover
On May 3, 2004, at 8:29 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: Running Mail 3.3 it's real good about filtering these out, after about 3 days of training I just let it go, I may have 50 to 60 junk e-mails a day, but there junk and rarely does it mess up and put something good in the junk box and if it doe

Re: Fake email

2004-05-03 Thread Harry D . Corsover
On May 3, 2004, at 11:15 AM, John McClernan wrote: Emery is right. It's called "spoofing" and I am a victim also. I just keep deleting them. The only way you can really get rid of it is to change your e-mail address - an option I'm not willing to exercise at present. My e-mail is tied to my busi

Re: Fake email

2004-05-03 Thread John McClernan
Emery is right. It's called "spoofing" and I am a victim also. I just keep deleting them. The only way you can really get rid of it is to change your e-mail address - an option I'm not willing to exercise at present. My e-mail is tied to my business. My 2ยข. John On 5/2/04 9:11 AM, "Emery Stora" <[

Fake email

2004-05-02 Thread Emery Stora
From: Kurt Appling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: returned messages Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 21:52:32 -0400 hi all, I am occasionaly recieveing notices of mail unable to be delivered to such?such address, but I havent mailed such a thing to anyone, is this normal or some kind of spam trick, tia for an