getting Spammed to hell
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MartBrooks
I wrote a little article on reducing the amount of junk email you get just yesterday.
http://blog.hinterlands.org/2010/08/how-to-get-less-junk-email/
http://blog.hinterlands.org/2010/08/how-to-get-less-junk-email/
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I've been getting tons of spam from SEO companies for the last few weeks.
I'm guessing it's Asian companies. I just delete them.
Steve
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Nothing through from them but certainly an increase in India based "SEO" companies touting their services.
They email me at all the usual addresses despite most of them not being active. enquiries@ info@ advertising@ mail@ etc.. Most annoying.
I have a feeling it's only going to get worse over the next 12 months.
They email me at all the usual addresses despite most of them not being active. enquiries@ info@ advertising@ mail@ etc.. Most annoying.
I have a feeling it's only going to get worse over the next 12 months.
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harryboon
They are clearly a very good company, honest and up standing - maybe you could learn something from them Ali lol
ps domain only two months old, no links - just standard Indian spam!
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harryboon
Now Now harry, I will tell your wife where you are hiding lol
Don't even go there, I am still in so much trouble, banned from sailing today as a punishment
not happy!
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A lot of the solutions discussed here are cures after you receive spam rather than preventing spam in the first place. The way you prevent spam in the first place is to minimise the chance of getting on the spammer's mailing list.
I wrote a prevent spam post here a few years ago discussing ways to do this.
I wrote a prevent spam post here a few years ago discussing ways to do this.
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bdw
No, they are not cures, they are just ways of helping to deal with it.
If you mail someone with an email address or run a business where you have to tell people your email address then there is no sure way of preventing spam. There have been open discussions in this forum about the use of email lists, which are compiled without the knowledge of those listed. The problem is that too many people think this is acceptable so there are no cures.
What we need is some sort of legislation that would prevent it. How about charging for each email and donating the proceeds to charity? I probably only send on average about 50 or 60 emails a day. At a penny an email that's manageable. The people who send out spam sometimes send out millions each. That is not manageable.
Alternatively, why not force ISPs to put a throttle on the number of emails that anyone can send out per day? Those who were not spammers but who had a genuine need to exceed this could apply for a licence to do so. If they abused it their licence could be revoked.
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If you mail someone with an email address or run a business where you have to tell people your email address then there is no sure way of preventing spam. There have been open discussions in this forum about the use of email lists, which are compiled without the knowledge of those listed. The problem is that too many people think this is acceptable so there are no cures.
What we need is some sort of legislation that would prevent it. How about charging for each email and donating the proceeds to charity? I probably only send on average about 50 or 60 emails a day. At a penny an email that's manageable. The people who send out spam sometimes send out millions each. That is not manageable.
Alternatively, why not force ISPs to put a throttle on the number of emails that anyone can send out per day? Those who were not spammers but who had a genuine need to exceed this could apply for a licence to do so. If they abused it their licence could be revoked.
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i'm guessing they probably have used some email harvesting software and taken it from the likes of UKBF etc.
the amount of spam i get is incredible but i guess its my own fault as i displayed my email address. lesson to be learnt for myself lol
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bdw
Amongst other things, they use email harvesting software to crawl the Internet looking for email addresses.
They also have other ways of doing this. How many of you have received "funnies" or images from unsuspecting mates with a list of 50 or 100 people on them? These lists get forwarded to a massive amount of people including spammers.
They also have other ways of doing this. How many of you have received "funnies" or images from unsuspecting mates with a list of 50 or 100 people on them? These lists get forwarded to a massive amount of people including spammers.
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There is no sure way of preventing spam, but if you broadcast your email address publicly on a website, in a way that is extremely simple for spam bots to farm, extract and place on their mailing lists, then you are as near as dammit ensuring that you will be spammed.
When I say cures I'm not really saying they are ideal cures, I'm trying to say that prevention is better than cure, being proactive rather than reactive.No, they are not cures, they are just ways of helping to deal with it.
Spam filters cures in any shape or form have their own issues too, and aggressive filtering can prevent good emails getting through. But the other side effect of not worrying about prevention, just assuming that you will get on spam lists, and just focussing on cures, is that once you are on spammers emailing lists, the spammers will also use your email address as the from part of the email. So it looks like the spam is coming from you.
It is for these reasons that I think we all should do as much as possible to minimise the chance of getting on spammers mailing lists in the first place.
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Yes, you are making it extremely easy for the spammers, not only with your email addresses on your website but also with your email address in your signature in this forum.
If you google for your email address in double quotes, you will see other websites where you have made your email address easy to harvest for the spammers.
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MartBrooks
Sorting mail once it arrives in your mailbox is, in my opinion, the wrong solution. Arranging matters so that the spam never gets there in the first place is the preferable way of doing things.
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MartBrooks
My personal and business email addresses are not secret. I use them on forums and mailing lists most of which are publically viewable. My personal address turned 11 years old this year, my business ones are about 8.
I get perhaps 2-3 spam messages per month. Obfuscation is not really going to help you here.
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bdw
I am not questioning your integrity but I find that very hard to believe. Just about the whole world has a spam problem and you know how to fix it? If you let me into the secret I will make both of us millionaires within 6 months.
AFAIK there is no spam filtering system that would be that effective and any filtering system requires a junk email or quarantine folder. Messages that go in there are still spam that you have received. I think all you have probably done is deal with it (as I do with my free version of Spambayes).
AFAIK there is no spam filtering system that would be that effective and any filtering system requires a junk email or quarantine folder. Messages that go in there are still spam that you have received. I think all you have probably done is deal with it (as I do with my free version of Spambayes).
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Yes, there is. That's about the level of Spam that I get. I now always read those few with some interest, to see how they got through and where they came from. Perhaps the pills from those that do get through will work!
But probably like MartBrooks I run my own mailservers, which are ruthless in rejecting likely Spam. Just checked the logs - 99 rejected so far today.
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