Topic: Spam

[Doris_Pinks]

And not the type out of a tin! ;D

Why all of a sudden am I getting about 30-40 in my mailwasher every day?

If I was a bloke, with what the titles are promising me, I would be very popular,  :o and if I won all the competitions I would be living on a sunny Island somewhere hot! ::)

Any way of stopping these irritating things, and why on earth do people send them, surely enlargers and viagra are not ordered from dodgey named people off the net! ??? ;D

[tim]

Why suddenly, don't know. I do know that I have been promised miracles for years. At my age!!

I get some 50-100 various per day. So annoying that the Spamfighter sometimes bins a mail you want, so you have to give the deletions a quick once-over.

[asbean]

The number of spam emails can vary - they seem to come in waves. A couple of months ago I was getting 800-1000 a day, my website host changed (taken over) and are now much stricter with the filtering and it is down to less than 100 a day mostly, which is luxury now.  I've got so used to running my eye down a list of emails and catching the ones I want that I hardly notice the title. I certainly don't open any of them.

[timiano]

It's possible that your ISP provides some form of low level spam filtering for you. Now and again, a new batch will come out that duck under the filters - as they are only low level to stop rejecting mails that are considered legit, called 'false positives'.

As long as mail washer is stopping them, you have nothing to worry about.

I run my own incoming/outgoing mail server at home using Microsoft Exchange 2007. Between me and my wife Sally, we must get hit with over 3000 spam mails a week. About 95% of those get rejected at the incoming mail server 'Edge'. The rest get filtered into our Junk Mail folder automatically. Meaning we can periodically check for false positives, as we run quite an aggressive filter. The odd one still gets through though (3-4 week). It soon learns though!

Tim

[Doris_Pinks]

Thanks All, not just me that finds them annoying then! ;D
Tim you make me laugh!
And asbean and the other Tim, makes my grumbling about my 40 or so seem silly, so glad I am not getting as many as you 2 have had! :o

[dtw]

Tim, one of the reasons you may be getting spam is because you have your email address on display here.
The spammers use software to trawl websites searching for email addresses.

[kenkew]

I got sick of it all too. Since I swapped to Gmail I don't have that problem. It catches 99% of the trash and drops them into a folder that I can quickly glance through and dump!
 Try Gmail....it's a great spam catcher.
Ken.

[stig]

fully agree with ken,google mail is easy to use and catches nearly all trash