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What is an "internet greeting card"?
I use Yahoo.com as my only email for everything and it filters all of the "faces of goo" type stuff to the bulk folder every day. I periodically empty it after a quick scan to make sure that nothing real wound up there. (Sometimes happens due to filter working too well). 
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Ok, so I hear what you're saying about my address being grabbed from others address books, etc... but how did I do it for so long without any spam? I mean it, none, not a single piece, ever. For probably 5+ years!
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03-29-2005, 09:33 AM
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You were just lucky, that's...
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03-29-2005, 10:47 AM
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Len, the same thing just started happening to me. Senders with names like Modigliani G. Chancery and Ineffectual J. Parked (just got that last one today, anyone else?) It seems to me that these must all be coming from the same place, since the are all similar and trying to sell me one of three things: drugs, software or horny housewives.
I've been at this same email address (work) for five or so years, and have never gotten spam. As in never. I do the occasional surfing here and there  , but I'm pretty sure that Pelican is the only site that has my email address. I'll try some of the above suggestions, I guess. -Jim |
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03-29-2005, 11:18 AM
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Try Coud Mark - Excellent free-ware / low cost subscription spam protection 'community' A few of us started using it at work and it worked so well we've elected to pay for the server version. http://www.cloudmark.com/
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03-29-2005, 11:34 AM
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Ok, I did a "view source" on one of the e-mails. This is the result:
hmm, it won't let me copy it here?????? Let me try this again. (I had to remove the "<" at the front of the lines to make them show up, otherwise they were invisible?????? DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> HTML> META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1437" name=GENERATOR> STYLE> /HEAD> BODY bgColor=#ffffff> DIV> Up and doing! br> Ayau br> 
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03-29-2005, 11:36 AM
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I sense a pattern here, I've recently started getting the same junk from the same sources. In Outlook, Is there a way to have everthing except selected sources go to a junk folder?
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And those images are to track who opens the email; you just verified your existence.
The newer Outlook versions have spam filtering in them, but I haven't used it.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Len,
Gave my father a laptop a couple of years ago. no matter how many times I show him how to use mail he just does not get it. I think he has sent all of 2 maybe 3 emails in 3-4 years. Every time I go to his house i fire up his mail and delete the few hundred pieces of junk mail that's sitting there. 2 weeks ago I had a problem with my hosting. Admin account mailbox for my URL was full. All junk. That's an email address I've NEVER used. You've been lucky so far. Scott
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03-29-2005, 02:38 PM
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lendaddy,
The longer you have an email address the more spam you'll get... I use Outlook 2003 because the spam filters are very effective. I receive between 200-500 emails a day and more than 90% of the spam is filtered out by Outlook 2003.
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03-30-2005, 05:07 AM
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I too get thousands of spams to my various accounts per month, but multiple layers of filtering reduce it to an almost tolerable nuisance.
The thing that REALLY irks me, though, is the effin' cellphone SMS spam. AT&T/Cingular has told me for the last couple years that (a) people are hacking into their SMS network and they can't stop it, and (b) there's no way to stop my phone from receiving SMS messages, even if I've opted-out from being able to send them. Thankfully in recent months it's slowed to "only" 1-3 msgs a day instead of the previous 10+/day rate.
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