OT- Junk Mail

[Baron Munchausen]

Just FYI...

Hotmail accounts are spam-cursed. Microsoft will harvest the addresses that you send mail TO even if you have opted out of their 'direct' spam list. Isn't that clever? You opted out of receiving spam, but they didn't ask if you wanted all recipients of your emails to be spammed. This is Bill Gates at his slimiest. So, whenever you send an email to someone from a Hotmail account you are pointing a gazillion spammers at that account.

Did anyone working with you on that project use a Hotmail account?

Other ISPs might have similar 'gotcha' policies, of course.

[capnq]

There are also harvester bots that crawl the Web mining e-mail addresses from any site they encounter.

We even sometimes get spam at the admin requests address at PBW.

capnq
PBW admin

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Just FYI...

Hotmail accounts are spam-cursed. Microsoft will harvest the addresses that you send mail TO even if you have opted out of their 'direct' spam list. Isn't that clever? You opted out of receiving spam, but they didn't ask if you wanted all recipients of your emails to be spammed. This is Bill Gates at his slimiest. So, whenever you send an email to someone from a Hotmail account you are pointing a gazillion spammers at that account.

Did anyone working with you on that project use a Hotmail account?

Other ISPs might have similar 'gotcha' policies, of course.

Yuk!

[Suicide Junkie]

I once reactivated my Hotmail account, just to sign up for, IIRC, Webshots. I got 3 spam Messages BEFORE I got my sign up confirmation message!

Fortunately, I don't use that account for anything except signing up for things, so I never have to read the spam

[Ed Kolis]

Shh! We're not allowed to talk about harvesters!

{confused silence}

Oh, that's right, this is the SE4 forum, not MOO3

[Kamog]

I get tons of junk e-mail everyday and have to be constantly deleting unwanted Messages, something like 20 per day. I used to read them all but I stopped doing that because it's a waste of time. You can usually tell which Messages are junk by looking at the subject and sender. There's tons of get-rich-quick schemes, chain Messages, insurance services offers, credit card company offers, adult web site offers, university degree by mail deals, weight loss products, viagra solicitations, all sorts of fake prize win Messages, deals to sell you herbs or drugs that's supposed to enhance your anatomy in various ways, pyramid schemes, Nigerian letter scams, mortgage deals, etc.

Some of the the subject lines are cleverly disguised to look like a legitimate message from a friend or someone you know. How do all these people get your e-mail address? The mail filters aren't perfect and don't work that well. I found that the only way to stop all this junk is to change your e-mail address every so often, but that is inconvenient...

[couslee]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Oh, that's right, this is the SE4 forum, not MOO3

LMAO.

or apolywonton