Re: Problem With Web Site E-Mail

i'd say i get 30-40 spam messages a day, i use mailwasher =
(http://www.mailwasher.net/) to prescan my inboxes for junk and bounce =
it back to where it came from.

spam spiders are a real problem, asci encoding email addresses still =
fools them, as my test mailbox for the encoded address receives no spam =
at all, the plain one hidden in a  comment gets some, which i blacklist =
straight away.

Best Wishes

Paul Roberts
mail(at)paul-roberts.com
++++++++++++++++++++++++


----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Dusty" <designsbydusty(at)tiadon.com>
To: "C. A. Milton" <camilton(at)hauntedhalloweencastle.com>; =
<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 10:27 PM
Subject: 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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