Fighting SPAM takes time and I had cut waay back on the amount of time that I had been spending on reporting it to www.spamcop.net, but today my in-box was jammed and I thought, "Ok, this is it! I'm going to report every single piece of trash that I get! It's time to end this spam-fiestia!". So I've been working on it, not just for me, but also for you. I mean, you aren't reporting spam, are you? I thought not! I know, it's too much work, all that clicking and copying, and pasting and forwarding... it's just too hard...!
Oh, don't I know it! It's rough... so you just delete it, or use some kind of spam filter or maybe even just change email addresses when the spam to email ratio goes above 50 to 1...!
Well, I discovered my Spamcop account was almost down to zero, so I logged in and filled up the tank again. The last $15 I sent them lasted almost 2 years! So I sent them another $15. This is a donation, I could have just kept using them for free, but they make it possible for me to report spammers and actually get some of them shut down! Yes, I've gotten thank you messages from the ISPs that were infected by them, and that is how I know. I figure most are too busy fightning this crap to let me know, so I'm going to get that only 1 in 100 sends a message. If this is true, then I am shutting down maybe 50 spammers a month. Of course, it's not just me. There are others reporting them also.
Anyway, I rolled up my sleeves, put on the latex gloves and started reporting spam, when I noticed that some of the reports as the spam was being processed were saying that no links were found in the spam. It seems that there are some problems with the header information that concerns the "content type", but I discovered that a small edit will allow the links to be found and processed as normal. Drop me a line if you want the fix.
I'll report back to let you know what I notice in the spam level, but as the spammers lose their accounts, it should drop off. And while some will give up and find honest work, or different scams to run, there's alwasy new suckers (greedy suckers) that will take their place, and will also spam me with the same dummy email address that is reserved for spammers. :-)
(hristian
Plan now to attend ----- The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference!
http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm
What can your business learn from the masters of email marketing?
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Oh, don't I know it! It's rough... so you just delete it, or use some kind of spam filter or maybe even just change email addresses when the spam to email ratio goes above 50 to 1...!
Well, I discovered my Spamcop account was almost down to zero, so I logged in and filled up the tank again. The last $15 I sent them lasted almost 2 years! So I sent them another $15. This is a donation, I could have just kept using them for free, but they make it possible for me to report spammers and actually get some of them shut down! Yes, I've gotten thank you messages from the ISPs that were infected by them, and that is how I know. I figure most are too busy fightning this crap to let me know, so I'm going to get that only 1 in 100 sends a message. If this is true, then I am shutting down maybe 50 spammers a month. Of course, it's not just me. There are others reporting them also.
Anyway, I rolled up my sleeves, put on the latex gloves and started reporting spam, when I noticed that some of the reports as the spam was being processed were saying that no links were found in the spam. It seems that there are some problems with the header information that concerns the "content type", but I discovered that a small edit will allow the links to be found and processed as normal. Drop me a line if you want the fix.
I'll report back to let you know what I notice in the spam level, but as the spammers lose their accounts, it should drop off. And while some will give up and find honest work, or different scams to run, there's alwasy new suckers (greedy suckers) that will take their place, and will also spam me with the same dummy email address that is reserved for spammers. :-)
(hristian
Plan now to attend ----- The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference!
http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm
What can your business learn from the masters of email marketing?
_____________________________________________________________________
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