kill my spam!
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- leftwave
my email address has been completely spam-free for 2 years and all of a sudden more than half of all my emails are spam!
i use outlook express and i really don't want to change my email address. does anyone know what i can do??
- dfd0
Try this:
- cosmo0
hahahah thats funny pic dfd.
- fusionpixel0
there is no easy way to kill it. the only way is changing your email address.
NOW! I found useful to set an auto responder in your current email address to like:
"Due to spam I had to change my email address, please resend your email address to:
Its an extra step for your contacts, but will ensure spam free. I had to do it, no rulers or software will keep your inbox spam free and you still have the risk to loose important emails.
one other thing. Keep your new email address confidential. simple: DO NOT GIVE IT AWAY TO WHOM YOU DO NOT TRUST! set up a gmail account for those cases.
- cosmo0
i want to collect all the email of spammers, and spam mother fucking fuck out of them.
- leftwave0
really? that's it? no solution?
i just got all these business cards printed up and now i have to change my email address?!?!?
- ********0
is it the same email address as the one in your profile?
some worms here search through grabbing addresses and spam from here
- leftwave0
thanks kona, i just changed my profile email address. (even though it's too late now)
fucking worms!!
- QuincyArcher0
if your isp also provides your email, you could try calling them, and asking to bump up the spam protection a little...worked for me once...
- ********0
no probs leftwave.
what i like to do is spend a few minutes doing a whois search for the spammers site. (usually the site where the spam links to). then sign that email address up for a bunch of free emails. thus. spamming them.
helps me sleep at night.
- mayo0
I changed my work address to a regular address in my profile because I think i was getting spam from someone here. At least they are a lot nicer now and send me toner and medicine instead of hot horny girls who like line dancing and polka.
- ********0
oh no mayo that was me.
sorry. thought you liked that sorta thing.
my bad.
- fusionpixel0
really, setting up your email address in any website is dumb. one way or another those robots/spiders/bugs or what ever sooner or later they will learn how to decode JS "hidding" email address code.
My worse choice was to put my real email addres in coupe of tutorials I wrote for a website online. after that it was all downhill.
- mayo0
I'm just not a fan of country kOna, but thank you for the thoughts.
- brandelec0
i had spam for breakfast this morning
don't fucking judge me
- mayo0
spamsilog!
- brandelec0
spamsilog!
mayo
(Mar 29 05, 14:28)omg how did you know :O
- mayo0
i am the mayo
- brawn0
if your isp also provides your email, you could try calling them, and asking to bump up the spam protection a little...worked for me once...
QuincyArcher
(Mar 29 05, 13:36)Dude, I worked tech support for an ISP. Trust me. It was alllll in your head.
"sure I'll up the spam protection for you.." type type type type.. submit.. ( inner monologue : ahh finally I found the long lost picture of that guy from karate kid as the wisdom tooth!)
"Alright sir / mam, we've just upped your spam protection, you should be noticing it any day now.. Thank you for call the __________ national help desk. Have a nice day. "
- fusionpixel0
LOL
So true
- ribit0
outsourced email services such as Everyone.net Business Mail have quite good spam filters... they just tag the mail as spam, so you can still go thru your spam folder and check for false positives. and then run additional filtering in your email client...a bit of work to setup...but it does work.