I've been getting about a million of these stupid things a day. And others from "bots" that simply contain an .exe file. Actually, it's about 10-15 of them a day. VERY annoying though. I've sent about 45-50 of them to snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net in the last two days. I'm about ready to terminate my subscription and start over. Since the wonderful webtv designers didn't put in a block sender feature, and the subscriber can't turn off their own email, only other users. Furthermore, the junk mail filter stinks!
Wanna know why your getting them in the first place? Because, to me, it looks like you are broadcasting your email address all over the internet.
If self-imprisoned @webtv.net (Tony V.) is your email then you got probs. Spammers use automated programs to pull email address from the usenet and through webpages/homepages. They seek out anything that has an at/@ sign and what comes before and after that @ sign.
Let me give you a few tips.
Avoid using your personal email that you use for work, friends, and family for anything else.
Create more than 1 email account. One for questionable sites and when placing online orders.
Dont use your isp's email address. Its something you are stuck with until you switch isp's and once you switch isp's its no longer good. Go with hotmail or yahoo mail for ebay, friends, family, and work. Its something you can keep for years and access anywhere.
If you want people in groups like these to contact you add words to keep automated spam filters from actually adding you. snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net is a good way of keeping you from getting added to a spam list.
Dont reply to anyone you dont know or be fooled into going to a "remove me from mailing list" links. That only confirms for them that your email account is active.
I hope that helps tony. Not sure if you knew any of this.
Well, yes, I knew of some of those things. I could create another email on webtv. But similar things are bound to happen. Unfortunately, webtv users CAN'T add anything additional to their email addresses. I have a computer, but I've never used it to go to groups because it's more vulnerable to viruses, although it would be easier to stop spam with it. Oh well, crazy people anyway.
Outlook Express is an ok deal for quick and easy reading of NG's IMO. For mail I do use Outlook. The trick is having a good AV program and a hardwired router firewall. I use AVG
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. It's free and they update thier definitions sometimes as often as twice a week. Low overhead on system resources too unlike Norton. That and keeping up to date on patches. Sure it's a PITA but if you don't do it you shouldn't snivel if some spammer grabs access to your system and rips a couple million spam messages out before your ISP gets enough complaints to shut down your account.
I used avg before its pretty decent. I got a um... government version of=20 norton av so I use it. Also for NG's I found MicroPlanets Gravity to be=20 very suitable for the job. As for outlook, I dont touch it. I can pull up= =20 messages from my isp's email through yahoo's pop mail service. As if=20 anything actually goes to my isp email...
I think someones been watching to much Star Wars. lol Think of me as a rebel hijacker. I stole a few of their star destroyers=20 and I'm cruising around in them.
Okay, that was called for. I guess I'll be corresponding with you NEVER. You'll miss me I know. If you were here, I'd kick ya from here to China and hope you catch SARS, arrogant piece of shit.
Ok, not sure why you are being so pissy, let's look at what I posted;
Outlook Express is an ok deal for quick and easy reading of NG's IMO. For mail I do use Outlook. The trick is having a good AV program and a hardwired router firewall. I use AVG
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. It's free and they update thier definitions sometimes as often as twice a week. Low overhead on system resources too unlike Norton. That and keeping up to date on patches. Sure it's a PITA but if you don't do it you shouldn't snivel if some spammer grabs access to your system and rips a couple million spam messages out before your ISP gets enough complaints to shut down your account.
Nope, don't have a clue why you are upset. Tell ya what, why don't you kick your own ass for being a twit?
Ah, that post. And here you are proving how true that was. There are a couple of folks in here using webtv that are pretty cool. Too bad you aren't one of them. Tell ya what, go download a clue and try coming back after you grow up and develop a sense of reality. In your original post;
"I've been getting about a million of these stupid things a day. And others from "bots" that simply contain an .exe file. Actually, it's about 10-15 of them a day. VERY annoying though. I've sent about 45-50 of them to snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net in the last two days. I'm about ready to terminate my subscription and start over. Since the wonderful webtv designers didn't put in a block sender feature, and the subscriber can't turn off their own email, only other users. Furthermore, the junk mail filter stinks!
Tony"
Try reading that again. You are so stupid you send the complaint emails to your own ISP. Try reading the headers from the offending email and sending the abuse complaint to the originating ISP. Of course that is probably beyond you. You are right that I should not have posted what I did. I should have posted;
Tony you are dumber than dirt. Your use of Webtv is about three steps down the stupid scale from an AOL luser. Get a real computer, get a real ISP, and get a frigging clue. Dumbass
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