That explains it. I got rid of my hotmail account years ago when I got
more spam than real mail. When they put the 2M cap, I felt even better.
Here's a link to a scrambler for email addresses.
http://www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/email/download.html
technomage-hawke@cox.net wrote:
>lets see,
>2 e-mail boxen in cox.net (both of which don't see much traffic save for this
>list and 2 other e-mail lists) and 2 boxen at hotmail (thats wher the 300
>e-mails a day are coming from).
>
>I use hotmail as my public interface (it keeps the spam out of my cox.net
>accounts). However, given that recently, I have seen the "undelivered
>messages" scam and the "MS Update" scam hit everywhere (hotmail and cox.net)
>for the last 5 days, I spend too much time here trying to make sure that I
>can get my mail.
>
>I have over 200 megs of infected e-mails itting in their own box atm (that box
>expires messages every 24 hours) and it never seems to end. I got 37 e-mails
>of this type within the last 40 minutes alone!
>
>I figure within 2 weeks, my current filter sets will be irrelivant (and I will
>have to create new ones)
>
>as for hotmail, I use a linux program (called hotwayd) to access hotmail via
>kmail (nice utility). it hasn't been fast enough though. I got bitch letters
>from the MSN/Hotmail stff 3 times this week for over full mail storage.
>
>I have done one thing though, I sent anyone I do business with a nice little
>form letter advising them not to sell my e-mails to third parties unless they
>acquired my express permission (jn writing). this has helped a bit, but
>still..
>
>lastly, I am using spamcop to help in minimizing the worm problem (in the
>notes section, I place this: "please notify the ISP that the user at the ip
>address listed for this notice is infected with <name of worm here>. Please
>correct the problem".). it works, even though spamcop wasn't designed to do
>this. I did right the admins at spamcop about this, so far, I haven't heard
>back from anyone there.
>
>I'll let you guys know how it goes.
>
>Proudhawk/Mage
>
>
>On Monday 22 September 2003 08:55 am, Don Calfa wrote:
>
>
>>How do you get 300 e-mails a day that is spam? I seriously never get
>>spam except for 4 a day with my bigfoot address and any adversitements
>>are from businesses that I purchae goods from. My other e-mail
>>addresses get zip, none, nada. I make sure that my e-mail address is
>>never listed anywhere that will be posted somewhere and if I put it on a
>>website, it's javascript encrypted so it can't be crawled.
>>
>>technomage-hawke@cox.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>spamcop isn't exactly a black hole.
>>>
>>>However, I see upwards of 300 e-mails a day now and most of it is
>>>unsolicited, unwated and sometimes very offensive UCE!
>>>
>>>the only things I filter right now go to their own folders (like publisher
>>>clearing house, eversave and all the surveys I take with NFO and this
>>>list). everything else not of a personal nature I consider to be unwanted
>>>spam and its dealt with accordingly.
>>>
>>>sure, blackholes do need a bit more intelligence, but I would rather not
>>>have to sit here for 3 HOURS daily trying to figure out whats what with a
>>>speech synthasizer (or a very strong magnifier and my nearly non-existant
>>>eyesight!).
>>>
>>>Proudhawk/Mage
>>>
>>>On Monday 22 September 2003 07:49 am, Victor Odhner wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've been bitten so badly by the whole blackhole folly --
>>>>having legitimate incoming mail bounced in the middle of
>>>>a job search -- that I'm no longer "fighting" spam at all.
>>>>I'm just using the Mozilla junk filter to isolate it.
>>>>Blackholes are a *bad* idea whose time has come and gone.
>>>>
>>>>technomage wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I recently signed up with spamcop. seems to be working ok as brand new
>>>>>(fresh!) spam was discovered today. hopefully, this will start working
>>>>>soon.
>>>>>
>>>>>. . .
>>>>>
>>>>>perhaos more of us should sign up. it'll definitely prove helpful.
>>>>>
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