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Author :: Wonder Wyant  |
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| Article Title :: "Where is My Spam" |
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Boy, I must be really new to the Internet! Everyone keeps
talking about all the canned meat they're getting and I'm hardly
getting fed over here.
I do get some, but I'm sure not getting fat on it. I receive a
couple of hundred or so emails a day so I'm not surprised that I
get a few offers for credit cards I don't need and junk I'm not
going to buy.
Although I probably average only a dozen or so letters a day in
the big metal box at the end of the drive,some days more that
half of that mail is junkmail.
While I find basically none of this junkmail useful to me, the
electronic spam is much easier to deal with. I'm brand new to
email and I still know at least three ways to hit delete! And, (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Mari Peckham |
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| Article Title :: Spam Not |
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"Spam not, lest ye be spammed." ~Mari Peckham
Just yesterday, I received over 40,000 emails from a person who
had harvested a contact email address from one of my websites.
The person may or may not have personally secured my email
address, but since I use it only to receive email feedback from
my website and never to send mail, I know that it was a
harvested address. Because of the nature of my use of this email
address, I also have a "Thank you for contacting us."
autoresponder message in place there.
My server was mad at me. My entire system was mad at me. I
couldn't conduct my normal business and send out email that
needed to be sent out, because my computer was hard at work
downloadi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Dennis Eppestine |
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| Article Title :: Spam - Is there Anything |
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Spam - love it or hate it, it's here to stay. We all receive it,
some more than others. One way to keep from being too annoyed is
to get a free web based email account. There are many free ones
available on the Internet. I try to keep one personal email
address that is private, but sometimes I start receiving spam at
that one, too!
Of course, for legitimate business email correspondence I use my
website associated email address. And yes, I receive spam at
that address daily!
So what can you do? Well, you can turn on your email filters.
Most email programs have filters you can set up. But unless I'm
completely overwhelmed with spam, I don't like to use filters.
There's just too much chanc (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Elena Fawkner |
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| Article Title :: Un-Due Process - Part 2 |
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DUMB HOST
OK, now let's turn to the real bad guy in all of this. The
webhost who shuts down a website on the grounds of nothing more
than the say-so of an unverified spam complaint. In my case,
it's DumbHost but I know there are many other webhosts and ISPs
out there who are just as irresponsible.
Here's the email I received from DumbHost informing me my site
had been shut down:
"To whom it may concern,
"We recieved [sic] the following spam complaint regarding
ahbbo.com. Your domain will be temporarily disabled for 3 days.
You can have your domain re-enabled at the end of this 3 day
period by requesting so at enable@unsupportteam.net. If we
continue to recieve [sic] complaints, action m (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Elena Fawkner |
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| Article Title :: Un-Due Process - Part 1 |
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"Automatic complaints are sent when a filter whose action is set
to Kill after complaining is triggered. For each filter, you can
configure who the complaint should be sent to. ... The message
body is also scanned for e-mail and website addresses. If any
addresses are found, they're added to the lists mentioned
above." Source: http://www.spamkiller.com/Features.html
SpamKiller is spam filtering software. Its purpose is to scan
incoming email for spam and take appropriate action in response
to those messages that are identified as spam, such as automatic
deletion. Another handy function is that the software allows the
user to generate automatic and manual complaint emails which the
user the (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: A.T.Rendon |
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| Article Title :: "Shortcuts To Control Terroristic Email!" |
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Everyone agrees that SPAM is a growing problem on the Internet.
And with estimates that we will soon have over 1 billion people
worldwide surfing the net, this problem will only continue to
grow worse.
The worst part of this situation is that spammers are very
clever people and they are using all of their knowledge to get
their message onto our desktops whether we want it or not.
For example, this week hidden among all of my usual get-rich
quick schemes and penis enlargement information was an email
from a porn site that literally took control of my desktop.
As soon as the email message was highlighted in my Outlook
Express window, it launched a web page that took up the entire
screen of (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Debbie Solomon |
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| Article Title :: Spamming The Internet ...Are YOU the next Vicitim? |
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When you hear the word SPAM, what comes to your mind? Is the
term worse then the meaning? This word SPAM has been blown out
of proportion. It is causing unbelievable hysteria on the
internet.
Many businesses are spending more and more time each day getting
frustrated, yelling at the spammers, and reporting the spammers.
-Is it really worth it? -Is there a way OUT?
Unfortunately we will never get rid of spam. It is like getting
rid of the junk mail in your mailbox. It is always there. You
can bank on it almost everyday. It is the same way with SPAM. As
long as you have any kind of existence online, your email box
will be littered with SPAM.
There is a way to cut a lot of it out though. Ev (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Bob Osgoodby |
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| Article Title :: Don't Get Mad |
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Get Even! In a 24 hour period starting at 10: A.M. this past
Tuesday, and ending at the same time on Wednesday, I received
1,734 pieces of spam email. Now these were all unique addresses,
and some had 4 or 5 copies.
I have had it with this nonsense. Looking at the email
addresses, it was obvious that mine were being harvested from
the web.
There is software, similar to the protocol used by the search
engines, that allows someone to enter keywords, and it will
search the web for any web site that matches the keywords
entered. It will then capture any email addresses it finds. An
example of such software is "Atomic Harvester".
I downloaded this software, which is fully functional in its
se (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: A. T. Rendon |
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| Article Title :: Shortcuts To Control Terroristic Email! |
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Everyone agrees that SPAM is a growing problem on the Internet.
And with estimates that we will soon have over 1 billion people
worldwide surfing the net, this problem will only continue to
grow worse.
The worst part of this situation is that spammers are very
clever people and they are using all of their knowledge to get
their message onto our desktops whether we want it or not.
For example, this week hidden among all of my usual get-rich
quick schemes and penis enlargement information was an email
from a porn site that literally took control of my desktop.
As soon as the email message was highlighted in my Outlook
Express window, it launched a web page that took up the entire
screen of (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Richard Lowe |
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| Article Title :: What Happens To The Spammer? |
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Sometimes it's difficult to understand why spamming is
considered one of the most vile sins on the internet. After all,
what harm does an extra email or two cause? And even if the
spammer is reported or caught, who cares? I mean, what happens
to a spammer anyway?
We've all heard people say, "well, why not just hit the delete
key?" I used to take the time to try and explain the problem to
these people, but I've since realized that there is a brand of
ignorance which cannot be penetrated by reason or logic. Now I
just nod and smile, and change the subject.
Spam would not be so bad if it was just one or two emails now
and then. Unfortunately, it's not just one person sending an
unsolicited a (read full article) |
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