(Off Topic) Spam Problems??

Thats win98se for ya ..... :'(

How did you get rid of the duplicate post?Keep the shiny side up

It comes from above (or should that be it goes from above) anyway it's gone.Regards
ExplorOz Team - David
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Always working, not enough travelling ;-)

AWwwwwwweeeeeeeee Dave, I could have had him going for days on that one ;)

Ads dont stop/cause spam at all! Only if your dumb enough to click on them and enter your email addy!!

once people get your email addy, usually by registering for competitions, or anything, from Webpages, etc, they sell it, Email addys are worth a fortune.

mate does security work, they called up a place that sells Australian Email addys and within a day he had a CD with a program and 1200 email addys...

its not only your email that is colated & sold
phone fax & address are all available on disk for purchace this information is gathered evreytime you subscribe to mags buy stuff with credit cards, answer consumer surveys & have your phone numberplaced in the white pages & many of the local council on sell the information that they gather as this provides them with extra income,most of the time this practice is perfectly legal,
Regards Bruce

Ahhhh Click here to Remove.... All that does is shows them that the Email address is still Active... They said that on the same interview today on the tele, so DONT click remove!!!!

Sending it back usually doesnt work as if they are smart, they use madeup RETURN address' that dont exist :(

I agree with the change ISP's. I use my Hotmail addy for everything but email! registering for thigns, selling things, what ever, then reply to genuine people from my real optusnet account.

Truckster,

I think there is a spam guard in yahoo that you can activate. I believe it works 50 percent of the time. Not sure about hotmail.

Hey Andy,

Don't be too hard on TAB just on an assumtion.....there are LOTS of other ways your email address can get into spam databases than just registering for something online....

Cheers,

Luke.

Its an idea to send it to abuse@yahoo etc... but now 90% of the email addys they use are fake, or the people are their own ISP, nobody to ban them...

I gave up sending to abuse@hotmail and yahoo and ... Never got anywhere, got the same mails day in day out, just used to deleting the crap.

Yahoo has MUCH better antispam than Hotmail.
YmmV.

Truckster,

That is true as I say most email addys are forged. However big corps like Yahoo! MSN etc don't take kindly to these people using their Trade Mark in this way and will sue if/when they find them.

They are usually not their own ISP they run their own web and email servers (as I do) but they must still have and ISP to connect their server to the network (ISP).

If you look at the headers you will see the path that the message takes through the various ISP's to get to your ISP and finally to your Inbox. It's the info in these headers that the authorities use to track the spammers. Most ISP,s have an anti-spam policy and will terminate their service. They (the spammers) will then of course move to another ISP and start again. Hopefully they are eventually prosecuted and sued.

Look out for the new marketing epedmic coming to your computer - instant messages. Those things that just pop up in a messenger (not MSN Messenger) window.

Flesh, the bloke that this article is from has a T1 connection to the net, not Via an ISP, its direct with the telecommunications company, as do most of the 'serious' spammers.

But agree, most people just run a webserver with static IP.

Truckster, I run my web server from a dynamic IP and on dial-up. Of course it's not on 24/7 just for testing a site I'm developing. And from a caravan as I travel around oz. (I got a long phone line :-))

Anyway if we want to stop spam we all should return the headers to the senders ISP and to your own ISP. There is a big push by industry and Gov to stop it. It is estimated that more than 30% of email traffic is spam (and increasing) and if not stopped will destroy the email system.

My hotmail acount is all but useless gets about 40 - 50 per day after using my full quota of address filters (250).

Cheers

yea Hotmail is generous with their 250 address' to block, but in reality, chances are they were false address' anyway, you could clear them out and add another 250 false ones and get the same result..

Shame really. or is that sham..

Im like you my Hotmail gets around 50 a day, but I usually use it for registering for things on the net, so cant expect anything else, but my real email account gets none yet.