HeatherLocklearRocks 1 Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 I'm getting tons of annoying junk (virus? worm? whatever) mail today and it's really pissing me off. Is it just me or is something going on today? Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 Yeah, there's a major virus going around, just lost the net for an hour as the IT guys sort stuff out. Being on a mac meself, however, no worries it seems! Apparently, fallout from geek legal warfare... Link to post Share on other sites
night-mare 0 Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 I'm getting bombarded. Help! Link to post Share on other sites
Thunderpants 0 Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 Junk mail is a problem, but not for me! i used to get a lot, in fact so much that hated my outlook! One problem is that spammers have very clever "wolf" programs that hunts the internet for e mail adresses, therefore: never post your e mailadress on the net, that include your ICQ, AIM, Messenger or whatever instant messenger prg you may be using, Don't write it in this or other forums, i am sure SJ don't sell your adress, but beware of the "wolf" Another problem is company's that you do business with, web sites you register with, some of them just sends you tons of junk, others sell their e mail lists to spammers. they ought to be shot! If you must give an e mail to websites, give them either a fake one, or make a real Hotmail account only for that purpuse! Never answer, or unsubscribe to junk mail, that will only tell spammers that your account is active and beeing used. In fact never even open them when you are online. Reason? a lot of spam mails are in HTML code, and the junk you recieve is actually unique and identifies YOU, when your mail client downloads images or text it identifies you as a spam reader, and you get more spam GO off line if you must read Viagra adds Lastly there are all those "friends" who makes gang mails with all of their contacts in the "to" field, those people should have their heads examined, because sooner or later your mail adress will end up with a spammer, e mail adresses are commodities that are worth money. So how to send gang mails? mail it to your self and put all your friends e mail adresses in the BCC field. Make sure your gang-mail-sending friends gets the message! There is only one thing to do, get a new e mail adress, and live by "thunderpants-anti-spam-rules" in the future. Hope it helps ATB thunder Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 Quote: Originally posted by Thunderpants: Lastly there are all those "friends" who makes gang mails with all of their contacts in the "to" field, those people should have their heads examined, because sooner or later your mail adress will end up with a spammer, e mail adresses are commodities that are worth money. My pet hate.. & people have the nerve to get offeneded or angry at me when I ask them not to include me in group mails Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan#Andrew 6 Posted January 30, 2004 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted January 30, 2004 You can be absolutely 100% sure that (of course) we do not sell email addresses (!), or do anything that will leave them exposed to any wolf or other animal after them.... Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 I'm getting many many via my OCN mail the last few days. Link to post Share on other sites
Ms Zoidberg 0 Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 This one is accounting for 30% of all email traffic, I read!! Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Yeh, I had 13 this morning, with 3 bounces from my own domain, and a total of around 15 or so yesterday plus bounces. thank god for Macs Link to post Share on other sites
Thunderpants 0 Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Hi Snow Japan Mod! I never meant to accuse you of inapropriate use of our information, i don't believe that you would do anything like that. If my post left anyone to believe that, i am sorry! But what i wanted to say was: If anyone write their e mail adress in a post in this (or any other) forum they have for sure signed up for Viagra, lesbians and easy money. I must add though, i have given my precious e mail adress to Amazon.com a year ago, and they seem to keep it to themselves. i get no spam mail, nothing at all, maybe because i am a bit paranoid...... ATB Thunder Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan#Andrew 6 Posted January 30, 2004 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted January 30, 2004 No probs Thunderpants! (You may have noticed that we have fewer snowjapan email addresses than we used to - 1 reason being the vast amounts of junk that was coming in daily because we put our mail addresses online everywhere....) Link to post Share on other sites
IIIII 2 Posted January 31, 2004 Share Posted January 31, 2004 I seem to have escaped it this time. Hurrah! Link to post Share on other sites
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