Re: Problem With Web Site E-Mail

Hello...

I've had this happen several times. It's quite mystifying when I get some
piece of junk e-mail that appears to be from myself. I have been told there
is some program available to spammers that will allow them to do that. But I
agree, it is very annoying.

Something else that's happening to me lately, with regards to spam. When I
do get some, I'll typically put the sender in my blocked senders list. I
might get one or two pieces of mail from that same address, but then they
apparently decide that my address is dead, so they stop. But I have one
sender that has continually sent me one or two pieces of spam a day for
about two months now. I can tell it's from the same person because I get a
piece of mail that goes directly into my Deleted Items folder (Outlook
Express) that is addressed to Mickey Squirrel. While this is only a minor
annoyance, I would think that by now someone would have realized that none
of these messages are being responded to. Hmmm.

Jami

----- Original Message -----
From: "C. A. Milton" <camilton(at)hauntedhalloweencastle.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Problem With Web Site E-Mail


> Hello,
>
> If this is off topic, my apologies.  Please e-mail your response to me
> instead of posting it.  Over the last several months I have been
indundated
> with junk e-mail addressed to me via my web-site.  A few of the pieces are
> addressed to me as Webmaster.  99.9% of the rest are to my website e-mail
> address name (mistresscaryl(at)hauntedhalloweencastle.com).  I did not check
my
> e-mail for _one_ day, and when I did there were 197 messages . . . and
NONE
> (please excuse the yelling) of them were for me personally.  All junk mail
> selling stuff.  I have set my e-mail (Outlook Express) filters as closely
as
> I can, but it's nearly impossible to catch the bulk of the stuff.  As it
is,
> I'm afraid the filters are so big that they're slowing things down (I only
> have a 333 mHz system).
>
> So . . . are you seeing this same thing, and is there anything I can do to
> better block the stuff?  In the months around Halloween I get a lot of
> legitimate mail, and want to work it instead of actually shutting the mail
> down.  This has me ready to pull my hair out.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Caryl
>
>

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