As above why? Any suggestions? The wife is taking a lot of convincing!
All answered welcomed offensive or otherwise because I've heard it all before-probably!
Robert Mitchell
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Laughing
Out loud at this one.
No advice to offer as I don't get that kind of stuff at any of my emial addys.
IBM Sack Employee For A Hard Night At It
Contractor/employee (IR35?), Mr Israel, a Frenchman, claimed [***] helped him get through the nightshift at an Industrial Tribunal. His female colleague discovered what he was at during the night one morning after relieving him of his nightshift duties and it is unclear how, acertaining some of the nightshift workers nocturnal shift pattern activities from their shared workstation. Promptly she informed his IBM masters who washed their hands of him. He was also being unreasonable claimed the Industrial Tribunal in using the 'help me make it through the night' defence above for his private [***] voyuerism habits.
Mr Israel should have remembered then to get his head down before his shift began.
In A Recent High Profile Police Investigation
Pete Townsend of the 'Oooo! Admited using [***] on the 'net for research purposes. Going as far as purchasing it with his credit card. A real piece of pop memoribillia for Scotland Yard there then! However Gary Glitter got the nick for similar internet activity, although he did have previous innuendo to take into the Courts considertaion.
This is a limited edition. Expect The 'Oooo fans at AWEB to delete this soon- Stalin style.
Re: auto acknowledgement sent back to email sender?
If your email package is able to display any "active" content, such as an image in an html based email, the sender can be alerted that your email address is live. This is known as a web beacon, and is all the spammer needs, e.g.:
http://[graphic location].gif?[email protected]
...will alert the spammer that [email protected] is a live address. Alternatively, a unique reference is used to identify the user:
http://[graphic location].gif?123456789
Opening up in the preview pane in Outlook / Outlook Express is all it takes...
MSN & SPAMMERS
Just announced that 'spammers' access chat rooms to harvest email addresses.
Nothing said about the commercial viability of MSN chat rooms though...just moralistic whinging out of all proportion to the human condition that MSN are challanged with and cannot accept liability for.Expect pay by subscription access to MSN services soon...
[***] spam
I think the programme Trevor refers to is called Mail Washer (though his suggestion appears to be more apt here!)
I have a spam problem too but I don't seem to get many via email - my problem is when on the internet the pages just pop up from nowhere and sometimes it's really difficult to get rid of them (some of them refuse point blank to be closed down)
Jacqui
Spam! Spam! Spam! AWEB & Spam Or Spam! Spam! Spam....
Spam!...Spam!...Spam!...Spam!
Altogether now!
#Its luvvly spam booty-full spam, Luvvly spam booty-full spam#
[***] emails
Just a thought, if the pics appear in your preview pane in Outlook, does this constitute opening the email and could some message be sent back to the sender as an acknowledgement?
Does anyone know.
I did hear about a spam filter which I think was called MailScrubber or does that sound an inappropriate name?
[***] Sites (or sights)
I think every time we send an email, someone grabs our address. Or do they get it from our web sites?
Maybe we should just set up in competition with them!
Hmmmmmmmm
I have two email addresses , a hotmail account which attracts no [***] and a freeserve account which has started to get [***] spam in the last month or so.
However, my wife gets a lot of [***] spam on her hotmail account, perhaps i should be asking her questions............
Whatever you do - don't reply
Whataver else you may choose to do (or not do), do not reply to these emails.
You may think that this is a strange thing to say, but at the bottom of most of these emails, there is a disclaimer telling you to "click here" to have your name removed from their mailing list. Unless the email has come from a reputable source, NEVER click on these links.
Most emails of this nature have been sent in the off-chance that there is someone there (ie: an email will be sent to [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].). If an email is returned to the spammer with an unrecognised user error, then that address is not tried again. If no such error is received then this address is added to the list of email addresses that are possibly active. If you click on the link at the bottom, then your address will be added a to a list of known active addresse as the spammer knows that there is someone there, who is taking the time to check the mailbox.
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I agree, do NOT "click here to be removed from the mailing list". It just shows it is live, and so when the spammer sells more names, he can say these are live!
If you run outlook or express you can set up mail rules. This will enable you to say, "transfer all mails containing the word sex or other dodgy expressions straight to your deleted mails folder. If you have a hotmail account, you can "block" the spam by clicking "block" (!!). I found this pretty effective eventually with hotmail. It took a couple of months, but it seems much better now.
If you ever fill in your email address at a website or on anything, this could be sold on. If you have your own domain, when entering your e-mail you could start it off with the name of the site, so if you get spam, it may show you where it is from (eg. [email protected]).
I use a different e-mail address on our business website than my actual business one, and I find all the spam comes from the web-site addresses, so I think there could be bots which trawl all websites looking for e-mail addresses on pages. Try using a form on the website rather than an address.
Finally you can buy third party software which says it helps with spam, but I haven't tried them so don't know if they work.
Hope the wife believes you!
Say No More! Say No More!
What about home visits for cash, Squire? If so? Will you be watching the TV in the next room, swinging round to join us, or having a night on the tiles as AWEB's self appointed luvvy esoteric theatre critic? No wot I mean, nudge! nudge! wink! wink! Or are you just strictly a voyeuristic net' head like millions of others who feel [***] is harmless lifestyle choice fun? Well I aint transgressing unnatural law Squire, but.......how's your back door for a clean get away if the 'filth' comes early doors bangin' their truncheons shouting order! order!?
Hotmail (Know Wot I Mean? Nudge! Nudge! Wink! Wink!)
It does what it says on the tin Nigel! Your wife squire, I was wondering are these 'amateurish' sites for the more mature lady or wot....?
Freeserve
I've got three addresses @ my freeserve account. Two of them are never used, and get no mail whatsoever, whereas mine is now getting up to 40 spams a day from people who think I have a DVD burning compulsion, a serious inadequacy about my bits or a desire to acquire $20m from a surplus government fund. Very strange, and freeserve doesn't appear to have any filters, although the help screens do refer to them. Pshaw and humbug!
2 things
1. Requests for read receipts will only be processed if you have a mail client like Outlook which supports this and if you have enabled it. By default, Outlook asks if you agree to a request for a receipt. If you do have Outlook, check in Tools > Options > E-mail Options > Tracking Options and disable the feature.
2. As an earlier poster said, e-mail addresses are harvested. Not only from internet sites, though. More common are newsgroups because e-mail addresses are invariably required to be quoted. The way to avoid the offensive SPAM is never, never disclose your e-mail address in a newsgroup or any internet site that isn't on a secure server. I have a webmail account which I use just for newsgroup use. It gets loaded daily with offensive offers for enlargement of something which I find quite adequate already(!), but my office e-mail account only gets business-type SPAM - and there's not much of that.
Look at the numbers
Sorry, can't add anything useful here that hasn't already been said but it is interesting to note the number of times this question has been read compared to all the others. Yes I know, I read it as well.