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At this time I have 3 mail accounts in use;
my "main" account I got from my dsl supplier, it has a rather long name, I never had any spam on it, though I singed for some "trustworthy" newsletters.
The second account is on msn and only for family-use - no spam there, though it has a very short and simple name.
And then the third, with a short name, by a freemailer, thought as the "newsletter-and-signing-in-account" before I knew about those throw-away accounts like yop-mail. On this I'm getting some spam, but it's not really much, 0 - 5 a day. I never ever open one of them, less fun but more safety.
Have a look at what Runesage wrote earlier in this thread :http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2555/page/2?replies=91#post-17517
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Posted 16 years ago # -
goodgotd
MemberIf you open just about any email (especially with HTML graphics enabled), you pretty much guarantee the darn thing "phoned home" using what's called a web beacon.
I can tell you how to see what's in many of the html emails without risk of beacons or rogue malware- don't *open* the email, save it as *text* and open it in notepad/metapad. Then you can just ignore the html tags and 'read between the lines'.
If you have to save as html, rename it to *.txt, then open it.
If you just *have* to go to a url, you can copy, paste, and go in with your browser's shields up. :)
but then, I'm old-fashioned; I don't believe html belongs in email, and I use an email client that can't do anything but launch it on demand in a browser.
I also despise WebMail- if I can't download it by pop3 or better, tough. my data, my machine.
Have you ever forwarded a "funny" email to others without stripping the header info and all the other email addresses listed on that email; or worse, bulk emailed something to all your friends by foolishly putting their private addies on the TO: line instead of the BCC: line?
*This* is something I give stern advice on all the time- I even have a 'form email' for it- either I don't get any more stale/dangerous jokes and 'go-here's' from that source, or the sender starts using BCC:, either way I win. Took *months* to get the concept over to my sister, but it was worth it, in the end.
I've presently got 6 'active' email accounts- although I may still have an msn passport, I lost track of it a couple years back.
* My Centurytel.net ISP-provided email with can't-opt-out spam and virus filters, that sometimes eats legit email and still leaks spam like a sieve.
I'm slowly shifting everything legit off to my main sld account so that so I can pretty much ignore it.
Once in a while a badly-written web page form refuses my sld emails and I have to sign up with it, but that and centurytel notices is about it for usability.
* A Yahoo email account I don't even bother to read, I have it for a couple of yahoo group logins, and that's it since free pop3 went away.
* A Gmail account I use for one newsletter, that I check maybe once every 3 months, as the mailing list is just to drive the spam collectors buggy.
Google's 'all your data are belong to us' policy sucks.
* A domain-based account I filter for a friend, as he made the mistake of using the primary third level domain as the address- that one gets 40-3000 spams a day and I forward him a 'real' email or 2 about every 2 weeks or so at most. It's not 'mine'. so I don't get mad about it like he did.
More a research project than an email account, I never send using it.
Most- a *big* most- of the spam is bounced mail from targets of spammers using the tld for their own sendouts- by a ratio of 17327 bounces to 2103 incoming spam to 160 'real' email of no real interest- mailing lists that we just can't seem to get stopped- and just 49 emails to forward- since october 2007.
And most of those 49 were early on, as he sent unsubscribe messages to as many as possible once I picked them out of the 'noise' for him.
* Then I have my two second-level domain based 'chameleon' accounts piggy-backed off his web hosting, that allows me to make up a unique address for every list, signup, or person on-the-fly, if spam shows up I can ID the leak and filter it into the trash forevermore.
One I've used since 2005, and I've only had to 'burn' 9 addresses, and there's one that I dump into a check folder as it still has legit mail occasionally- 2 spams a week on average.
I use this to register for freebies a couple of dozen times a week, register software, etc. and still get very little spam.
The other is new, and only a few people have it. not one spam, of course.
If your ISP allows you to change the alias on your account, send a few heads-up messages to those you want to reach you, with a cutoff date- then change. Other email setups the same method is the way to go, if you want to chop back the spam.
and always have at least one email for registrations that simply refuse to take a temp email from the likes of: http://www.dodgeit.com/ , http://www.guerrillamail.com/ , http://sneakemail.com/ , etc.
FWIW, there's my advice.
Posted 16 years ago # -
I'm changing my bank - I just got this grate offar in my emael:
Dear Customar
the new wellsfrago Bank services
we invite you to come and see our services
all setup is freeour home page .http://yourview.biz/
please join our membership
and thatnk you for your fidelytiTheir customer service can't be any worse than their spelling. LOL.
Nothing like a slick, professional looking con. ;)
(Who said reading through your spam folder couldn't be entertaining).Posted 16 years ago # -
copmom
MemberGee whiz BuBBy.. wouldn't you think they'd have a spell checker?? How ignorant can people be! I liked spamfighter so much I subscribed to it for 2 years..
http://www.spamfighter.com That's cut down a ton of stuff in my inbox, it all goes into the spamfighter folder, and periodically before emptying it, I do spot check because there are still a few legit ones that get put in there. Even found a couple that WERE in my address book that got put in there, perhaps because of the subject, who knows?Now it still can be used without subscribing but on the free version the emails you send out will have a blurb on the bottom saying something to the effect: "SpamFighter has removed ### of emails for me".
Posted 16 years ago # -
I just use Thunderbird and the default junk mail filtering. For perhaps the first 48 hours - I had to manually re-direct the occasional "missed" spam to the spam folder - but now it takes care of itself (pretty much).
The junk mail filtering isn't really brain surgery - and now products like Mozilla Thunderbird can hold their own in keeping junk mail out of your inbox.
Posted 16 years ago # -
RunesageMagik
MemberBuBByCo, there must be at least 1000 Nigerians hawking fine Sweese-made Rullixes for only $20 (hands extra) on city streets all over the globe who probably wish they'd thought of running that ad first.
Posted 16 years ago # -
If you get in immediately, I have a few brunches left to offer to decerning invescetors - wellsfrago bank allows you to run your own bisness. Just send us your moeny and we will invest it in your own wellsfrago bank, complete with your own webpage to display your services.
All training (including spam with stile, getting away from the authoritys, and sounding legit) is provided, and you will get back your initul "donation" in almost no time at all. No other business can make promises this big. Your only regert will be if you let us get away without first being taken advantage of - our claims.
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberBubby - Thanks for the info on Thunderbird. Didn't realize it had that capability. I'd been using Incredimail, free version, because I could send and receive graphic stationaries and IM letters. You have to pay for the junk mail filter. I hardly ever use the letters anymore and the junk is coming in at an alarming rate. I'm going to give T-Bird a try.
Posted 16 years ago # -
RunesageMagik
MemberBuBByCo, oh BuBByCo, wherefore art thou, BuBByCo? Don't mean to drag you away from this hilarious spam spoofing (you've got the spelling down pat, but the threat and intimidation style needs work), but my in-depth game "review" (which I fully expect to see show up in the Stupidest Comments thread tomorrow) is still awaiting decensoring. The unwashed throngs and The Mangoette Family won't ever see it if you don't schlep over there and approve it real soon.
Maizey, FWIW, even with all my email addresses, I rarely get spam in my private mailboxes these days. Mebbe 1 or 2 per week, if that. I don't use any special settings and don't use Firefox... juno, yahoo and mail.com filters are doing a bang up job these days, save for occasionally shunting good mail into the bulk folder. My only junked up boxes are the throwaway boxes I use for most game and forum registrations.
Posted 16 years ago # -
I rarely get spam in my private mailboxes these days. Mebbe 1 or 2 per week, if that. I don't use any special settings and don't use Firefox.
Whether you get spammed or not doesn't really depend on which browser you use - normally having your email appear in plaintext on the web, or signing up to unscrupulous mail lists or just plain bad luck is all that is needed. Some would argue it's just a matter of time, and sitting behind spam filters doesn't mean you aren't getting spammed.
But my point to clear up any misconceptions for other readers - The actual browser that you choose to use has no bearing on others sending you crap emails. I suspect RM actually meant to say Thunderbird (the Mozilla email client) instead of Firefox (the Mozilla web browser).
Posted 16 years ago # -
RunesageMagik
MemberSorry, didn't mean to imply choice of browser affects spam volume.
Some of my email addies are 10 years old and still aren't spammed much (that I see); but yes, the old infinite number of monkeys and typewriters concept rules... given enough time and spammers running email generation progs, every address will likely be hit. IMHO, the key is to not open the spam regardless how curious you are about that teaser Subject Line, and disable HTML for email because sure as shooting, a hidden web beacon can alert the spammer that he's got a live one.
Agreed, the fewer times your email appears on the web, the better. Web designers ought to use some method of email obfuscation - at the very least, a graphic representation (along with Alt Text or an audio embed), or a scrambler that converts text addresses into ASCII. Here's a good HowTo for novice obfuscators. - http://tinyurl.com/23oqt3
Oh, and never ever forward emails with all the header info still on it, and never ever ever bulk mail something to your friends with all their addresses in the TO line... put them in BLIND COPY so you're not giving out private email addresses to the world. (friends and relatives may be nice to have, but you can't control to whom THEY'll send that funny email you sent them) If you practice these steps, you, too, can remain almost spam free.
Well, now, BuBByCo, yer right, I don't use Firefox. I'm really not clued into Mozilla's various namesakes, so just replace Firefox with whatever you guys were alluding to prior to me barging in - Thunderbird, Wild Turkey, Manishevitz, Absolut, Foster's Unrinal, Ernie's Rotgut, whatever.
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maizeydaze
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RunesageMagik
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Buckleysmom
MemberWe've been able to cut out a considerable amount of spam by using a free gmail.com account. All our email is routed through our gmail account and filtered there first then "the good stuff" is forwarded on to our ISP email account. Is that making sense? If not I'll try to clarify. It has eliminated at least 90-95% of spam and general junk mail. Then, the few that still get through are usually caught be our spam blocker, we use Bit Defender. All in all I'd say I only deal with 3-5 spam emails a month tops. I clean out my gmail account once a month and there are usually several hundred that have been blocked. That's just my account.....hubby has his own, so I would say it's been working like a charm. BTW gmail is not the only free email service that provides spam blocking.
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberIt seems that some of the guys posting to that forum may drive a Hummer but have a Mini Cooper in the garage.
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