Re: Upsurge in spam

2002-10-03 Thread Peter Bull
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1 Oct 2002 06:20:06 - To: wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Upsurge in spam Of course we also theorized that a spammer with a little knowledge could simply write a program that would go through all the possible variations

Re: Upsurge in spam

2002-10-02 Thread logrythm
Shay Telfer wrote: I had a discussion with another friend on Friday (who is also an iiNet subscriber) who had noticed the same issue - perhaps iiNet have dropped some of their filtering around this time as someone else eluded to? Actually I've had spam on a new e-mail address that was only

Re: Upsurge in spam

2002-10-02 Thread hinchlif
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 02:25 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: I had a discussion with another friend on Friday (who is also an iiNet subscriber) who had noticed the same issue - perhaps iiNet have dropped some of their filtering around this time as someone else eluded to? Actually I've had

Upsurge in spam

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Hawkins
Over the past week or so I've had a huge increase in the amount of junk mail that I get. The ration of junk to genuine is now about 30:1. Has anyone else noticed an increase? Mine has coincided with a subscription to MacCentral. Although none of the junk relates in any way to Mac products, I have

Re: Upsurge in spam

2002-10-01 Thread Bob Howells
I guess you could ask IINET what they have in place to reject spam ! By accident i recently found my ISP has some filters of some sort in place. Emails from one of the free emailers were just not arriving. When I went to that emailers web site I found every email had adverts attached. Bob

Re: Upsurge in spam

2002-10-01 Thread Shay Telfer
Over the past week or so I've had a huge increase in the amount of junk mail that I get. The ration of junk to genuine is now about 30:1. Has anyone else noticed an increase? Mine has coincided with a subscription to MacCentral. Although none of the junk relates in any way to Mac products, I

Re: Upsurge in spam

2002-10-01 Thread Shay Telfer
Over the past week or so I've had a huge increase in the amount of junk mail that I get. The ration of junk to genuine is now about 30:1. I don't get much spam, so I'm lucky. Or with Bigpond. But it sounds like a great problem at 30:1. What are the cons against 'starting life afresh' with a

Re: Upsurge in spam

2002-10-01 Thread god
Over the past week or so I've had a huge increase in the amount of junk mail that I get. The ration of junk to genuine is now about 30:1. Has anyone else noticed an increase? Mine has coincided with a subscription to MacCentral. Although none of the junk relates in any way to Mac

Re: Upsurge in spam

2002-10-01 Thread Shay Telfer
I had a discussion with another friend on Friday (who is also an iiNet subscriber) who had noticed the same issue - perhaps iiNet have dropped some of their filtering around this time as someone else eluded to? Actually I've had spam on a new e-mail address that was only known about by iinet