Spam!

[Maccers]

[glb]Enlarge Your Breasts Quickly And Easily!

100% Naturally With No Surgery![/glb]

Yeah... really mate! :-/
I just got an e-mail with this in the subject line... Its starting to piss me off when you get a volley of emails that are just rubbish. Its time for a change...
Anybody know of a free POP3 provider that i can use with outlook/incredimail?

[ozzy72]

I still haven't found a freeware one that works as advertised, but what is wrong with bigger boobs? I wouldn't mind some.

Ozzy

[BFMF]

Anybody know of a free POP3 provider that i can use with outlook/incredimail? [/color]

I think Outlook Express can work with Hotmail, but I havn't seen a free POP3 provider for years

[Fozzer]

I just got an e-mail with this in the subject line... Its starting to piss me off when you get a volley of emails that are just rubbish. Its time for a change...
Anybody know of a free POP3 provider that i can use with outlook/incredimail?

Hi Maccers...!
We've done this subject umpteen times before and I still can't think of a cure for it.... ....!
When I logged-on tonight I got 15 adverts trying to sell me

[BFMF]

You could open up a new e-mail address, but just be carefull who you give it to

[Fozzer]

You could open up a new e-mail address, but just be carefull who you give it to

Hi Andrew....!
I know what you mean. The trouble is, I like my original E-Mail address, 'cos it describes me, and the trouble now is that all the "Spam Sites" out there know it as well by now...Boo, Hoo...!!
I should have kept my "Special" E-Mail address just for my friends, and registered a "Naff" E-Mail address for all the "Spam Sites" out there...!
You always learn about these things when it's too late...!!!
...Buggar...!
LOL...!

Cheers Andrew...
Paul.
(England).

[WebbPA]

It's pretty easy to block spam with OE.  In addition to blocking specific senders you can just block mail with specific keywords in the address or body.  I'd keep breasts but dump viagra.

Just look in Tools/Message Rules.

[Maccers]

O...k paul, the less said about your coment the better
I actually use a hotmail account through Incredimail, it looks nicer... plus i get this really cool looking e-mail snail that zooms onto the screen when a new 'spam' arrives. Its still very much the same program.

Maybe i should broaden my needs on the email account thing...  A domain that isn't too well known, and can pretty much handle big file upload/download (that last one can be skiped if need be)
Heres the breast message, and another one that was lying in my inbox when i got back from work ::)


(Christ all mighty... i would never neglect my septic tank!)

[pete]

I have several email addy's & with one in particular I get bombared with spam ... & I hate to imagine if some young person is in a similar position.


I get hard core porn ads every day in graphic detail - everything imaginable -

[Iroquois]

I used to get thoes with my old free email provider. They usually want me to buy "cheap DVD's" , join the military, or to "Enlarge [my] penis to please [my] woman."  I won't buy stuff off the internet, I hate following orders, and have never had a girlfriend. They should really check out the people they send this stuff to. I remember beign 12 and having AOL. I'd get constant porn ads along with credit card offers in the regular mail.

There is however, a way to stop spam with Outlook Express 6. Under tools, select Message Rules and then Mail. You can set this up so you don't receive email from certain addresses or ones that contain certain words. I simply told mine to block emails containing the words "porn" and "XXX" and now I don't get thoes kinds of emails.  :)

[BFMF]

I believe spammers have scripts that scan webpages looking for email addresses. The major problem with these scripts is that they have no intelligence, so having an e-mail addy like 'emailaddyREMOVECAPS@msn.com' prevents scripts from using your real address. I've got a friend that does this also.

btw, has anyone tried going to google and searching their name? I did, and it's scary!

[Professor Brensec]

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I get hard core porn ads every day in graphic detail - everything imaginable -

[Hagar]

I get bombarded with this stuff all the time. Out of about 30 mails in my Inbox this am only 4 were genuine. Fortunately I know how to recognise it & if in any doubt I simply delete it without even reading it. Sometimes I might slip up & accidently delete a genuine mail. I always thought I get so much of this crap cos my e-mail is well known. Recently I opened a Hotmail account to check it out. I selected the option to block Spam. Only one close friend knew the addy. When I checked it 2 hours later the Inbox was already full of the stuff. Figure that out.

[BFMF]

Almost sounds like M$ is making a little extra money giving out info

[Hagar]

I'm sure these people use a simple random address generator to flood the net with their rubbish. If you think about it the computer is ideal for this. I don't think there's any way you can hide from it except use one of the smaller, less popular ISPs. I think this was the point of Maccers' original question.