OT - Suggestions for dealing with spam

[Mathias_Ice]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Hey Mathais... Disney never was what you though it was as a child.

Just think about what you said.

When you were a child you could trust them

Uh, huh?

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:

quote:

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Originally posted at cnsnews.com: "This isn't an issue of discrimination; it's an issue of discernment. Homosexuality definitely is a social disorder. It is not genetic, it is acquired," Sheldon said

LOL.
Age isn't genetic... its acquired.
So its okay to discriminate against old/young/etc people too?

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If something can be aquired, it can also be avoided. Show me someone who avoids age.

[eorg]

Originally posted by Mathias_Ice:
If something can be aquired, it can also be avoided. Show me someone who avoids age.

no but one can avoid race - see michael jackson :-P

seriously - the idea is that age is not generic - and to make general conclusions about people is plain stupidity like the person i know says 'all arabs are terrorists' :-)

[eorg]

also - maybe michael jackson fights spam too

[Gryphin]

One difficult way:
Create rules to keep the specific sourses you do want.
Then have your friends put a key phrase on the subject line.
Everything else gets sent to trash.

[Narrew]

One thing that I would add is NOT to reply to any spam, they may take you off their list, but they will add your "verified" address to be sold.

If you want to be on the offense then go to www.networksolutions.com/ and there is a way to track down a company, do a WHOIS, the site is not up atm, but I think you can use the domain name or IP address and find out the service provider that serves the web access to that company that is spamming you. Then you send a letter to the service provider AND send a copy of the letter to the states BBB and (I am not for sure which state goverment agency).

You can get the spammers info by looking at the properties of the e-mail it should have some IP address's and other things that may be confusing, but you can get the idea of who the originator is.

Good luck, I am single so I just delete the crud that gets through, but if I was a parent, this type of spam would get on my nerves.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Mathias_Ice:
Ah, good old Disney.When I was a kid you could trust them for good, clean fun. And now, like 99.9% of all American corporations, the bottom line and political correctness is all that matters.

Gotta love general Christian tolerance...

[ August 09, 2003, 22:54: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Fyron]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Have you checked if your ISP can filter spam? I have mine do that although it only gets about 75% of the crap. I get the rest with a program call Mail Washer which can automatically delete spam.

You have to purchase a copy to use it with Hotmail?