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Let others have their turn. If you don't, you might end up like this: Maybe he should have read the rulebook before playing the game?

I hope it's ok if I post this in the computers sub-forum. It seemed like I would target the audience who might know the most about this. I have a free AOL account through my dad which I almost never use. I drop in periodically to clean out all of the spam which I did recently. Much to my...

Thought about putting this in the PC forum, but I think it's as much a social issue as anything.... http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/27/uk.spam.reut/index.html The POSs :mad:

I could put up with the odd Viagra spam and the annoying Stock Market spam, but from about a week ago I'm suddenly being struck by about 20 hardcore porn spam a day. There's no need to open them, the hardcore porn is in the subject line, all the words spelled with double and triple letters to...

On my Yahoo account, I keep getting emails in my bulk folder with no sender, and "[none]" for the subject. I don't open them but they are very small. I can't set a filter to immediately Trash them for a non-existent sender, and filtering for "[" doesn't work, because I think that' just added...

Stocks and shares spam. Suddenly, a couple of weeks ago, I started receiving loads of spam espousing the virtues of particular stocks and shares both at work and on my main personal email account. How long am I going to have to wait until this kind of thing gets added into the spam filters...

I just received this spam: I'm pretty darned excited about responding to it, yes sir-ee ~~ Paul

Suppose there was an obnoxious site. Assuming that they dearly deserved more crap than a reasonable person could ever count, how would one most effectively promulgate their email address to maximize spam? I mean lots, not the odd penis extender or stock offering, I mean massive stuff, the...

I am a sysadmin for a small college in the US. We have roughly 5000 email users. We use a spam blocker from a company called Ironport that does a good job from and end user perspective. We get very few complaints about spam and I get very little in my inbox. Now, according to Ironport ‘s...

I just received this via email - I don't know what the forum rules are on quoting verbatum from an email are, but it does say to pass it on... anyone else had this? any thoughts?

Been getting a lot of spam lately where the sender line is empty, the subject line is empty, there's no text, and there's no attachment. Thunderbird has no trouble identifying it as spam, and none of my antivirus / antispying software is picking up anything. Mailwasher can't bounce the spam...

Its a picture of Jesus telling you to send it to 10 people you know. If you do it proves you are not ashamed of Jesus. If you dont then you are ashamed to be a christian and Jesus crys. I just need to figure out what to send back to my proud friend. Maybe a picture of satan with the same...

For some time now, I've been getting these odd emails. I assume they are from a bot, looking for a response in order to get a good email address? I always bounce them, but I confess I wonder about them. Does anyone know about these things? An example is posted below...

Seems all of Tom's yapping has called people to action. I hope this is the beginning of a major backlash for Tom's shilling of the CoS (though I still can't wait to see War of the Worlds). This was in my junk email folder today. Below is the full text of the e-mail: We are telling you this...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/response-to-spam-staggering-accused/2005/06/26/1119724530504.html I'm sold. I think that's .03% success rate, but he turns over 80 million in a year.

Usually my junk mail folder is filled w/ articles about how I can lose 30 pounds in 30 days, or how I can have better orgasms, or about a great opportunity to earn cash from Nigeria. Apparently, ministries have developed this particular brand of spamatude. For your perusal. Hello, I know that...

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Behold, the greasy, beady-eyed face of spam. This creep is getting 9 years in the slammer for filling inboxes with bogus scam adverts and other violations. I hope his cellmate is 6' 8", 375 lbs., covered in tatoos, <6 teeth, and likes his sweeties a little on the chunky side.... He allegedly...

I've banged on about spam in the past, but now I have another question. I have one e-mail account that I have obviously let leak into the world of the spammer. It receives about 60 spam mails daily. I don't open them I don't even allow them to show their contents in the preview pane. The go...

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Sitting here wading through reams of spam-mail, I realise I don't know the answer to several very simple questions. Are there real companies selling real products behind all the offers of cheap loans and prescription drugs? I think I am right in saying that there is a market in validated...

I'm trying to figure out how these Turing tests would be used for filtering email. Right now, whenever you want to send email via Outlook Express, you would compose a letter. This letter would be send via your machine directly to the SMTP server your ISP provides, then it would be sent through...

Suppose people stopped getting email accounts and stopped checking their email. Then you wouldn't see any spam. Okay, so what's an alternative way to get and send messages without using email? You could join a few different bulletin boards, tell people what names you are using on which...

I put this here, rather than the Computer forum, because this is really a question about economics. Aside from the phony "Mircosoft updates" and the like which are trojan horses for malicious software, there is much spam which is "honest" in the sense of really (apparently) trying to sell me...

I have spent a lot of time on homeopathic BBs lately. The idea was to find out what makes homeopaths tick, although of course, some heated discussions (and one banning) ensued. The result of this is an article on homeopathy, a review of the Organon of Medicine, and a fledgeling skeptic site by...

One thing many of you who've discussed the issue with me know: I LOVE my Bayesian spam filter! It's built right into my mail client (Mozilla), all I have to do is mark incoming spam and it learns as it goes, and no problems with false positives. I've had to tweak the settings lately because of...

No this is not a plea for everyone to SPAM Bill...this is regarding the Anti-SPAM legislation moving through Congress: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=575&u=/nm/20031121/wr_nm/tech_spam_congress_dc_12&printer=1 I just question why the government chooses to attack SPAM. SPAM is a...

So I got a spam email today, with a "Remove me" option. The Remove Me ends up being an email to send to the proper person (supposedly) to get you off the email list. I'll grant that. But here's the problem: the email gets bounced because (get this) the mailbox is full. Yeah, no doubt...

I live in the UK and many ISP's impose a download limit over a specific time frame. So it effectivly costs people money per k downloaded. So if someone sends me a mail /popup/ redirects me to a site i don't want to goto then why isn't this theft. For things like telesales etc you would be most...

Jimmygun started another thread about how JREF has been helping him, and I commented on the Christian Spam that I get from well meaning (and otherwise) friends and Christians. I thought it might be instructive and interesting to share some of this folderol and our responses. Here's my latest...