There is this dude who spams me on an almost daily basis. I filter him out regularly, but he burns right through the filter and shows up in the in box.
So I filtered EVERYONE as an experiment. Last resort I returned the infamous "REMOVE" message to this guy.
Probably time to get a firewall. About six months ago or a year ago I mentioned black ice which seemed to be unpopular with Tony. Now, with the deluge of junk mail, I'm ready to seriously investigate a firewall.
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Email Spammers are Winning
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Tony-San
Email Spammers are Winning
Black Ice caused problems with my display for some reason. It also doesn't work on outbound traffic (at least my version didn't). I'm using <A HREF="http://www.zonelabs.com">Zonelabs Zonealarm</A> now. I don't see how a firewall is going to filter email though. It does look for viruses but it doesn't read the mail headers. I'm not sure any of them do.
Tony
Tony
Email Spammers are Winning
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Allen M.:
Last resort I returned the infamous "REMOVE" message to this guy.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Bad move... Basically all that does is prove to them that they have a valid e-mail address...
Try putting together a forged "bounce" message and flooding it back to them. Send one or two to make sure that their e-address is valid (you don't want to get hit with the bomb you're sending
), then if the address is valid, flood it with a few hundred or a thousand of the "bounce" messages. They'll stop sending to your address and put it as "invalid" in their notes. Help from your sysadmin will make it work even better.
The problem these days is that the spammers rotate addresses faster than you can put them into the kill-file. There are ways to filter the spams, but the best thing is to guard your email address(es).
A firewall protects your machine, but doesn't prevent legitimate (or legitimate appearing) incoming traffic.
Last resort I returned the infamous "REMOVE" message to this guy.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Bad move... Basically all that does is prove to them that they have a valid e-mail address...
Try putting together a forged "bounce" message and flooding it back to them. Send one or two to make sure that their e-address is valid (you don't want to get hit with the bomb you're sending
), then if the address is valid, flood it with a few hundred or a thousand of the "bounce" messages. They'll stop sending to your address and put it as "invalid" in their notes. Help from your sysadmin will make it work even better.The problem these days is that the spammers rotate addresses faster than you can put them into the kill-file. There are ways to filter the spams, but the best thing is to guard your email address(es).
A firewall protects your machine, but doesn't prevent legitimate (or legitimate appearing) incoming traffic.
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Allen M.
Email Spammers are Winning
I never do that, but this email address kept refusing to go into my "bogus" folder after filtering him several ways. They are what smells like a valid company, and so far it looks like they honored my request.
