AndyC_772

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Just curious here. Both at home and at work, 90% of the spam I get is trying to sell me pharmaceuticals. The rest is trying to sell me email spamming services.

Is that the same as most other people, or have I somehow ended up on a list which is shared amongst online drug companies and nobody else? It seems odd that both my home and office email addresses (with which I'm pretty careful) should both have fallen into the hands of the same type of spam organisation. Or, maybe it's just that other companies are less good at working out how to get their spam through mine and my ISPs' filters.

Abdabz

Apparantly there are various ways I can increase my length without surgery

Other than that career stuff.....

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Apparition

AOL is pretty good at blocking the stuff now, but I've had Mrs so and so from africa wants..... and stuff like that oh and any amount of valium etc.

T4molie

About the same Oh and some bird who's always lonely and looking for me to watch her?

David Lock

lot of usa mortgage stuff....

OllyK

Very little SPAM actually makes it in to my Inbox, my own mail server does a pretty good job of filtering the crap out using various "learning" techniques. The server stops around 500 SPAM mails a day, many of them to non-existent mail addresses (the joys of owning domain names!).

With SPAM creation so easy, many of them just hit every random letter combination for a given domain using between 2 and 20 characters. Many SPAM mails contain hosted images, so when you look at the mail, their server logs your IP and they know your e-mail address is active (thankfully Outlook no longer downloads images by default). These images may be a 1x1 pixel transparent gif so you may not even see it (another resaon to accept / convert mail to plain text before you read it!)

The war continues against SPAM, but while just 1 person actually buys from these compaines they will keep sending crap out!

_Meridian_

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No spam here either - Zen ADSL.


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boxst

Hello

I get the ones you mention (Viagra, herbal enchancements, Vicodin etc..), increasing the length of various things, somewhat diversely increasing my breast size, mortgage ones from America and lots of lonely housewives who are apparently desperate for me to meet them.

Steve.

RJMS

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You do have to be careful with anti-spam measures - some of my emails get diverted to my gmail account - which unilaterally decided that 90% of them were spam - fortunately it puts them in a seperate folder and you can still get at them so no big loss. I've actually stopped using various ISPs etc. because they use anti-apam/virus measures and thus stop me getting some emails that may well not be spam or a virus. I far prefer to make the choice myself rather than rely on someone else to "look after me" but then again I do know what I'm doing (most of the time ).

My own domain name has also made it onto some "spam source lists" so just occasionally I get emails bounced back to me because apparently they are spam, funnily enough one was to SIDC and the other was to BowaterZenith complaining about unsolicited phone calls - and they refused my email because they thought it was spam Funnily enough I complained and got it sorted out very quickly.

Brendan Hughes

As boxst. Pharmas, plus masses of lonely housewives and cheap American mortgages.

LC Geezer

And now us chaps can shoot by the bucket load simply by taking some pills. Aparently, girls love being drenched in the stuff. Yeah, right.

Silver Scooby Sport

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I get a ton in work as our firewall has burnt down by the seems of it... someone attacks us on a daily basis as the company I work for is worldwide, intercompany e-mail addys have been cloned and I get mail from cloned addys.

I just delete the lot don't even bother seeing if it's real or not anymore !!
A nice quite life lol

At home it's a different story, I'm with BT and I'll give them their due I don't get hardly anything making it through. They have a bulk folder which spam is diverted to, so it does not even hit my inbox and anything that makes it through I mark as spam and never see it agian.... I do check the bulk folder once a week to see if any mail I want has gone into it but this is a rare thing.

Simon

hedgehog

Do Zen have a spam filtering service that you can sign up to?

I'm with Zen and get a lot of spam through, though I'm running Outlook 2003 and Cloudmark so I probably only actually get 5 or so per week into my inbox. The rest I delete without even looking.

However, I didn't know that Zen have a filtering service. Do they charge for it or is it a simple matter of just signing up?

_Meridian_

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I don't have any extra service, but since I moved from talk21.com (now part of yahoo) to zen pretty much all spam has stopped. I still get a small amount of spam on the old talk21 account, so maybe I'm just lucky.


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hedgehog

Ah, after posting I did some further research and discovered that almost all of my spam is coming from an account other than my Zen one. Forgot that I was using two at the minute.

However, I have a mate who also has Zen ADSL and who gets probably more spam than anyone I know but then he posts on newsgroups using his real email address. No surprises there then. In saying that, for some reason that I can't explain, he sits there and reads all of it!! What is he looking for? Oh well, each to their own.

My guess is that the reason you are not getting spam to Zen is because your Zen address is not widely known by the spammers with it just being new. If you were to post your email address to a web site or newsgroup my bet is that it would not be long before the spam would go through the roof. Just a guess but it sort of makes sense.

_Meridian_

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I'm not stupid enough to leave my e-mail addy in full view! Most times you never need to, so there's no excuse. If you have to, then there are plenty of ways of doing it that crawlers will miss: "no.spam" etc.


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