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sho.gun
08-03-2002, 02:15 PM
Gaaah they're filling up my junkmail folder in my hotmail account and THEN HOTMAIL DECIDES MAYBE ITS GOOD TO DELETE MY OLD EMAILS TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE 313 kb emails i've been gettting.

Dammit. :angry: stupid spammers die!
Hiro
08-03-2002, 02:22 PM
there is a particular reason i don't use hotmail. :) or any mail free mail service for that matter.
Ladogaboy
08-03-2002, 02:27 PM
Don't they empty your Trash Can before deleting your older mail? :confused:
Raider007
08-03-2002, 04:04 PM
my dad is/was (not sure anyomore) having that problem...he was getting like 10 spams a day and it would fill his box...
hang10wannabe
08-03-2002, 06:32 PM
Originally posted by sho.gun
Gaaah they're filling up my junkmail folder in my hotmail account and THEN HOTMAIL DECIDES MAYBE ITS GOOD TO DELETE MY OLD EMAILS TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE 313 kb emails i've been gettting.

Dammit. :angry: stupid spammers die!

:stupid: im with ya sho.gun... i didnt check my email for 3 days and i get 45 new emails (after having a butt load on block etc) and out of all 45... all were spamers!!!! dammit all.... die spamers die! :johnwoo2:
jase71
08-03-2002, 06:43 PM
Heh. 313K... what a pain!

That's one of the things I like about KMail, the email program I use. It's got a "bounce" option that returns the email, appearing to be a "message undeliverable" error like you'd get if you sent to an invalid email address.

I'm sure most of the return email addresses from sleazy spammers are spoofed, so only rarely does the right spammer get the "bounce" message, but it's satisfying anyway just to send that bugger back out. And it does cut out the spam from companies that aren't quite so fly-by-night. A couple of bounced emails will get you off their list.
hang10wannabe
08-03-2002, 07:35 PM
Originally posted by jase71
Heh. 313K... what a pain!

That's one of the things I like about KMail, the email program I use. It's got a "bounce" option that returns the email, appearing to be a "message undeliverable" error like you'd get if you sent to an invalid email address.

I'm sure most of the return email addresses from sleazy spammers are spoofed, so only rarely does the right spammer get the "bounce" message, but it's satisfying anyway just to send that bugger back out. And it does cut out the spam from companies that aren't quite so fly-by-night. A couple of bounced emails will get you off their list.

k mail u say??? what be this k mail and how may i acquire this "k mail"...? :hmm:
sho.gun
08-03-2002, 11:51 PM
so after a couple hours i come back to see this... again...

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/0702/screeniespam.jpg
mojo
08-04-2002, 12:08 AM
Originally posted by Corsec
there is a particular reason i don't use hotmail. :) or any mail free mail service for that matter. i use them because they're forever...or at least as long as they're free. if i change isps, get tired of a domain name, fall off the planet for 3 months, or whatever...i'll have my hotmail and yahoo wherever i end up. i would just have hotmail, but they just give you a whopping 2mb space. and i would just have yahoo, but as i mentioned in another thread, it blows goats.
hang10wannabe
08-04-2002, 12:35 AM
Originally posted by sho.gun
so after a couple hours i come back to see this... again...

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/0702/screeniespam.jpg

i c someones getting Pr0n :hmm:
jase71
08-04-2002, 05:52 AM
Originally posted by hang10wannabe


k mail u say??? what be this k mail and how may i acquire this "k mail"...? :hmm:

Sorry, it's a Linux app, not a Windows program...

Oh, and be careful, there's a Windows program called KMail too, which is completely unrelated to the Linux KMail.

Though if you look, there's probably some Windows email program out there that will do the same thing... but I have no idea what it might be.
Merlin
08-04-2002, 07:02 AM
Originally posted by hang10wannabe


:stupid: im with ya sho.gun... i didnt check my email for 3 days and i get 45 new emails (after having a butt load on block etc) and out of all 45... all were spamers!!!! dammit all.... die spamers die! :johnwoo2:

That's nothing my hotmail gets 45 spams every 12 hours. If anyone wants to know how to stop baldness, what mortgage rates have fallen to, how to repair credit, add inches to the old penis, lose weight, buy steroids, or where to meet young hot teens just let me know. These spammer seem really locked in on me. :(
hang10wannabe
08-04-2002, 09:39 AM
Originally posted by Merlin


That's nothing my hotmail gets 45 spams every 12 hours. If anyone wants to know how to stop baldness, what mortgage rates have fallen to, how to repair credit, add inches to the old penis, lose weight, buy steroids, or where to meet young hot teens just let me know. These spammer seem really locked in on me. :(

and i thought i had it tough :heh:
Brendan
08-04-2002, 05:43 PM
Originally posted by jase71


Sorry, it's a Linux app, not a Windows program...

Oh, and be careful, there's a Windows program called KMail too, which is completely unrelated to the Linux KMail.

Though if you look, there's probably some Windows email program out there that will do the same thing... but I have no idea what it might be.

A few months ago I had a problem with somebody spoofing our domain at work. I was getting hundreds of "undeliverable" messages a day. Then somebody recommended Mailwasher (http://www.mailwasher.net/) to me, a few weeks of use later, I maybe get a handful a week now. It's really simple to use (simple enough for me and that's saying something :) ).

I don't think it's quite the same thing as KMail but it does the same job.
pagemap
08-04-2002, 09:25 PM
My sister got a couple of those 313KB emails. Strange.