It's been a while: sometimes, when i check my e-mail box, its 7 or 8 simultaneous spam mails from that "buy chinese stock" scam or "pen1s enlargement" scam. It was driving me crazy, and i wanted someone's head!
:kill:
After some searching around, i come across SPAMCOP:
( http://www.spamcop.net/ (http://www.spamcop.net/) )
It's a site that tracks and reports spammers to death, giving THEM much more trouble than their schemes would worth. If i knew of this service a month ago, i wondn't have a spam folder with 300 mails unoppened... not without giving those bastards what they deserve, at least.
ATTENTION: they value people with fast spam reponse, in other words, the faster you give the spam mail to them, the best they can act - they measure your response time. Don't bother trying to report spam that is more than 2 days old, that's the time limit.
Or, you could always just not sign up for shit that would result in spam. I've found it to work quite well.
...besides RMRK, TORQUE, 3Dgamestudio and DeviantART, who are large sites with hundreds of people, i quite doens't seem to remember signing up for no other "shit".
So in what kind of "shit" i've could been NOOB and stupid to sign up to? Because it seems you know.
Must've been something. I don't get any spam.
Anybody logged in can see your email adress (unless you've set in your profile to hide it). To guests (and e-mail harvesters) your contact info is hidden.
you could set your spam filter to high and then you wont get spam at all... I actually stopped getting mail, so i turned my spam filter down cus it made me feel loved.
I get spam from eBay heaps, but it doesn't bother me I simply ignore it. You don't have to look at spam or even worry about it: "Every month all spam is deleted."
You guy got lucky, i guess. Mmm, i also subscribed to Youtube... have 4000 views on a animation there, but i was sure i didn't EVER optioned showed my e-mail to any one of those sites... then again, that wouldn't stop a good spammer from obtaining e-mail.
Still, anyone who doesn't receive spam must be using a helluva good spamfilter... in any case, i thought everybody was having the same problem that i had: spam with hacked headers and fake senders, that are becoming normal nowadays and giving everybody a heck of a headache.
In any case, anyone got any scam spam and want to pounce the face of the spammer as much as i, i'll still recommend spamguard services.
The best SPAM filter I've seen is the one in gmail. I've tried once or twice an spam mail not ending up in the spam filter and never tried a wanted mail ending up in the spam folder. I still check it.
One of my gmail accounts have around 500 spam mails at any present time (30 days old spam mail are deleted) so it's not that I don't get spam...
On the other hand I've heard about SPAMfighter and SPAM bully.
Programs meant to fight SPAM like the one you are linking to.
Everybody receives spam... sometimes, the spam filters affect legitimate e-mail. Is not often, but it can happen.
As i use OUTLOOK for my e-mail, the app downloads everthing from my mail services, INCLUDING all the spam. Normally it was rare, one or two sometimes, just like you guys. No biggie, no worries.
In my case, i simply got a horrendous increase recently. Then, twelve spams per day - i acumulated 300 unopenned spams last month - all of them with fake headers and morphing senders. In my opinion, this isn't even spam, is an agression and should be dealt with properly... i felt harassed and thought that people from RMRK maybe wanted the SPAMGUARD tip. Well, the tip's tipped ;D
I think there's a way to make a new email address and forward your old one to it. I'm not sure, but this might solve your problem.
Quote from: Holkeye on April 09, 2007, 04:05:57 AM
I think there's a way to make a new email address and forward your old one to it. I'm not sure, but this might solve your problem.
I can ask my brother, he works for an anti spam company, he makes like programs to filter out spam and stuff. He would know how to do that.