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Subject:
Spam Email
Category: Computers Asked by: jashnimal-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
06 Jul 2003 17:35 PDT
Expires: 05 Aug 2003 17:35 PDT Question ID: 225860 |
First of all GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Thats my anger, i dont like it, i dont buy anything from them an di will not even if i want it. I have a hot mail account and i i get 100 spam email a day, i know that they are some options in there to help me but is there a way to stop ot i mean like softwear and stuff to help me? |
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Re: Spam Email
Answered By: merle-ga on 01 Aug 2003 21:21 PDT |
Hotmail is the worst for sending spam to their users. I would first suggest you switch over to another email account such as http://www.Popmail.com which is also free and they don't sell your email address to vendors so you'll never receive any spam. If you do decide to stay with Hotmail I can suggest an excellent program called Mailwasher that will work in conjunction with your Hotmail account. It's not free but you can download it and try it out for 30 days absolutely free to get a feel for it and see if you like it. It can be downloaded here http://www.firetrust.com/index.php The nice thing about MailWasher is it bounces back the spam to the spammer so eventually they'll take you off of their lists. It also allows you to blacklist people at will so if they do get thru one time, they never will again. It's an excellent program and I've been using it for years and love it. Good luck and I hope you found this helpful. Merle.ga |
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Re: Spam Email
From: livioflores-ga on 06 Jul 2003 17:40 PDT |
Take a look here: http://keir.net/k9.html |
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Re: Spam Email
From: livioflores-ga on 06 Jul 2003 17:44 PDT |
see also this two pages: spamgourmet: http://www.spamgourmet.com/index.cgi?languageCode=EN Spam Links: http://spamlinks.port5.com/spamlinks.htm |
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Re: Spam Email
From: rmn-ga on 06 Jul 2003 17:47 PDT |
Most of the links livioflores has provided you are helpful, but deal with POP3 e-mail accounts, not web based e-mail such as Hotmail. My best advice is to switch to a different service which already has SPAM filting - such as Yahoo Mail (http://www.yahoomail.com). There is little you can do to filter out SPAM that is comming through Hotmail itself, however, I can personally attest to the Yahoo filters working very well. |
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Re: Spam Email
From: jeeagle-ga on 06 Jul 2003 17:54 PDT |
Two more general points to cut down the flow of spam: - Some spam has a link at the bottom saying something like "Click here to unsubscribe". Never, ever click this - it just confirms that your email address is active and increases the amount of spam you'll receive. - If Hotmail allows it, go into your account options and turn off the option to display HTML and graphics in email messages. Apart from the fact that images contained in spam may be offensive/pornographic, these images are downloaded from the spammer's website when you view the email which, again, confirms to the spammer that your email address is active. |
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Re: Spam Email
From: wag-ga on 06 Jul 2003 23:58 PDT |
here is a list of free trials to reduce your spam (from an australian anti spam industry body) http://www.iia.net.au/nospam/ some important tips from are at this link: http://www.spamtrap.net.au/company/news/pressreleases/310303-1.php |
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Re: Spam Email
From: stephenvakil-ga on 15 Jul 2003 11:47 PDT |
It's probably too late for your current account, and most likely hotmail is not the best option for you. But if/when you do get another account, you can consider providing unique email generator services such as sneakemail.com ... the basic idea is to give a different generated email address to each site or service. all emails will be funneled to your actual account with details as to which 'fake email' address it corresponds to. then, if you receive unsolicited email, often times you will see where it originated. sneakemail is free... there are other non-free services as well. |
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Re: Spam Email
From: leland-ga on 23 Jul 2003 21:15 PDT |
import your email through a spam filter that uses a bayesian filter. This unlike most other spam filters actually learns as you go and is quite accurate. www.paulgraham.com/spam.html can give details to the process as he is in the process of creating it. I use mozilla browser, it does bayesian filtering. my email is passed from my various other accounts through the filter and is filtered into junk folder from my inbox. www.mozilla.org. they also have a stand alone mail program called thundermail. |
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