William Morrison wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Phillip Jones wrote:
Mark Hansen wrote:
On 4/8/2010 4:18 PM, Phillip Jones wrote:
My ISP is stickler for not been labeled as friendly to spam. Do I get
spam. I have one mailbox that I use strictly to catch spam. and
even on
my good address I still get about 20 pieces of Spam a day. once every
week on both account I go into web mail and throw out about 50 on my
good account and about 300 pieces in my throw away account.
Your ISP not allowing you to send spam is in no way related to the
amount
of spam you receive (except that it may reduce spam you might have
received from other members of your ISP).
I wish there was a signal you could push that would send a signal
to the
originating server that would literally either wipe the drive out
so it
would not even be able to be reformatted. or would blow the equipment
completely up.
That's simply ridiculous.
I didn't say it was possible or even practical. I'd just like to see
some severe consequences for people considering creating spam or even
gathering list to feed to spammer. Its bad enough I have to put up
with legitimate advertising. But when I get junk I don't want under
any circumstances it make you want to punch their lights out.
When I think of all the resources wasted carrying and storing and
delivering their crap, driving costs up for everyone, I get pretty
peeved myself. But in the ordinary course of life, I mostly don't see
it because it either gets filtered by my ISP or it gets filtered by
the JMC in SeaMonkey. I have it set to delete Junk messages after
seven days, and that folder contains 43 messages at the moment --
about six a day from seven different accounts. No big deal with a
broadband connection.
I seem to remember reading about some hacker getting serious prison
time recently; those are the people who really should be punished.
That stuff, and malware and 419 scams, that's what really should be
crushed. Maybe they should spend 20 years reinstalling software after
HDD reformats...
You know I've been receiving email since sometime in the early 90's
starting with local dial-up bulletin boards then the big 3 of Prodigy,
CompuServe and AOL then on to AT&T Worldnet as dial-up and for a short
time through ISP my cable supplier has and now fully through the cable
ISP and except for a modeling amount with AOL never really had a spam
problem. Two years into using the cable ISP and being fairly spam free
the ISP decided to install antispam software I believe it was Barracuda
or something similarly named and wouldn't you know it the very first day
they had it installed I got 15 to 20 spam emails through the server but
they were all marked "Possible Spam" by the software that was supposed
to be stopping it. I tried using the unsubscribe link located at the
bottom of this spam but that seemed to generate even more so I just
started deleting them as I got them and up until I had to register with
a couple of driver downloading sites had become almost spam free. I've
always wondered if most of the spam and/or viruses aren't written by the
companies also writing the software to get rid of them, similar to the
companies that makes the radar detectors people use to keep from getting
a speeding ticket are the exact companies that make the radar guns the
police use to give you the ticket with therefore creating their own need
for being in business.
You never ever push the unsubscribe button in Spam that is so when you
click, they know they have fish on the line. Best thing is mark them as
spam and delete them. When I first started on the internet there was no
such as spam. its only after IE got started that we started having much
spam. I could open another email account but, I would have spam within
two weeks.
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net http://www.vpea.org
mailto:pjon...@kimbanet.com
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