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| Author: | derf [ Fri Sep 05, 2003 7:20 am ] |
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| Author: | Arathorn [ Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:14 am ] |
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Complain to your ISP for a good spam-filter. I never have any spam with my provider. |
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| Author: | Inquisitor [ Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:51 pm ] |
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I'd suggest spam assassin - since we use that - but I think it only applies when it's your own server/blah/etc thing. Ie, we have our own server and whatnot, with our own domain name [ppfort].... so I don't think it would work for you... |
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| Author: | Pig [ Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:13 pm ] |
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IMHO, the best route is to prevent it. There are 2 ways you get hit by spam. 1. Through a harvested list. Anytime your email appears online (forums are a prime example, and so are subscription services and sites where you have to register) it can be harvested by a spider. Once you are on a list, the list is sold and re-sold and re-re-sold... 2. Spam scripts. Ever get an email where there were 15 other names on the list, all of which were VERY close to your own? They use a script to churn through millions of variations for each domain. Since these are just guessing at names, there is nothing you can do about them. #2 you cannot avoid, but #1 is easy. Keep a private email for your friends and family. Don't use it online, ever. Get a free acount from hotmail, or whatever, to use for registering for things. Unfortunately, spam is getting more and more crafty. For instance, if they don't get a bounce back saying your email is invalid then it gets marked as a valid email, and is sent more and more spam. Slashdot has had some really intersting articles on this. One neat one was about a method called "grey listing". If you read the comments on it, you can see how easy it is to cripple counter-efforts. Anything you can think up, someone else can find a way around. I know that no one here would ever use cracked software, but anyone that does has no place complaining about spam. The same human nature and craftiness that brings you pirated software is the same that brings you daily messages about penis enlargement and viagra. |
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| Author: | Pig [ Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:18 pm ] |
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| Author: | derf [ Sat Sep 06, 2003 12:54 pm ] |
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| Author: | Peltz [ Wed Sep 10, 2003 3:23 pm ] |
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| Author: | Mole [ Wed Sep 10, 2003 4:28 pm ] |
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| Author: | Satis [ Wed Sep 10, 2003 6:20 pm ] |
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| Author: | Peltz [ Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:53 am ] |
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| Author: | derf [ Thu Sep 11, 2003 5:33 am ] |
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| Author: | Mole [ Thu Sep 11, 2003 6:57 am ] |
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lol, Yes Mr Peltz, I'll put him on right away! Yez.. This I Bin Laden... here's the proof |
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| Author: | derf [ Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:51 am ] |
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| Author: | Satis [ Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:40 pm ] |
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| Author: | Mole [ Sat Sep 13, 2003 7:02 am ] |
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I offen think simular things about stuff you buy from the shop over here... i mean you get some right rip off stuff, but people still bloody buy it. If they all at once said no, they refuse to pay these ridiculous prices, they'd have to lower it. but then that leads my mind to - Jacking up the taxes, and raising the cost of necesities (spl?) such as water bills. |
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