Getting Spam
Submitted: Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 20:50
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Jimbo
I've read the other thread and, to me, it is this simple.
Don't put up your actual email address. Since changing internet providers and protecting my email address I haven't had any spam.
Here's how you do it in simple terms.
If your email address is fredflintstone@bedrock.com.au and you don't want to get spam..... and you want to let someone know it,
Put it up as fredflintstone at bedrock dot com dot au.
Then the screening devices will not get it, but the person you want to know it will send it to you properly.
Simple really. I learnt this from another forumite and have had no spam since.
Reply By: Rock Crawler - Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 21:12
Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 21:12
that use to work , now there programs recognise it
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Follow Up By: Jimbo - Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 21:21
Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 21:21
Fair Dinkhum?
It's working for me so far but I'll defer to your better knowledge.
What is the preferred method to stop it, or is it a lost cause?
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Follow Up By: Rock Crawler - Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 21:23
Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 21:23
down load programs like incredimail and add your unwanted mail to the block senders list when they come through. Wont stop them but slows them down heaps
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Follow Up By: Truckster (Vic) - Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 21:55
Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 21:55
open up a Yahoo or Hotmail etc account... use that. Then if it gets spam, who cares. at least your ISP one is safe
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Follow Up By: Utemad - Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 23:36
Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 23:36
Hey Truckster I have 5 email accounts (uni, work, forums, ISP, old web based account). Of those 5 accounts I only have ever posted the two free ones (
forum and the old web based account). Out of those 5 accounts I only ever get spam through the ISP account. The one I &*#@%&*% have to pay for! Bloody Bigpond!
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Follow Up By: jduckmanton - Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 at 13:14
Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 at 13:14
I also use Incredimail, (it can be downloaded from here)...
http://www.incredimail.com/english/index.asp
another feature that it has is for you to select all spam type emails and "Bounce" them back to the sender giving them the impression that your email address is not working, an example of the message sent back to the sender when you "Bounce" them is below...
Cheers, John
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
The original message was received at Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:12:50 +0000
from
I'm sorry to inform you that the message you have sent
could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
----- The following addresses had permanent delivery errors -----
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Reply By: Patrolman Pat - Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 22:05
Friday, Aug 19, 2005 at 22:05
Jim, when Fred Flintstone starts getting spam he's going to come looking for you. Can the Jery can out run the dino car.
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Follow Up By: Jimbo - Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 at 16:55
Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 at 16:55
ROFLMAO
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Reply By: D-Jack - Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 at 00:48
Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 at 00:48
How about if you reverse the words (make sure you let the recipient know!):
enotsniflderf ta kcordeb tod moc tod ua
Lets see the screening devices pick that one out.
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Follow Up By: kev.h - Sunday, Aug 21, 2005 at 18:57
Sunday, Aug 21, 2005 at 18:57
your likly to get a lot of emails in russian or some other language
LMAO Kev
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Reply By: Member - t0me (WA) - Friday, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:14
Friday, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:14
Spambayes has always been my favourite.
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
Once trained it grabs 99% of the spam I get and gets rid of it for me.
Works on Office 2000 and above.
Free.
Works.
Open-source.
I've installed it on hundreds of machines, and use it myself, I'm happy to recommend it.
Good tip though Jimbo, thanks for sharing. I'll give that a go too.
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