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Winmail99

I use Outlook Express to send and receive email.

How do I get rid of a spammer who keep sending me
junk email.?

I have asked this person to stop...but he continues to keep
sending my junk mail that I do not want.

I have put him on on Blocker senders list but that does not help
I send a email to my ISP about the problem and MSN abuse support (
that is the email he uses!!!
but they have not responsed?
Does anyone have any other ideas?
This goes on every day...and I am real tired of this guy.!!!
 
Winmail99 said:
I use Outlook Express to send and receive email.

How do I get rid of a spammer who keep sending me
junk email.?

I have asked this person to stop...but he continues to keep
sending my junk mail that I do not want.

I have put him on on Blocker senders list but that does not help
I send a email to my ISP about the problem and MSN abuse support (
that is the email he uses!!!
but they have not responsed?
Does anyone have any other ideas?
This goes on every day...and I am real tired of this guy.!!!
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While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take to
minimize it's impact:

1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your reply
address, for example: "(e-mail address removed)."

2) Never, ever reply to any spam you receive, even to "unsubscribe" or
"remove" yourself from the spammers' address lists; you'll only compound
the problem. If spammers had any intention of honoring the your desire
not to receive spam, they wouldn't have become spammers in the first
place. When you reply to a spammer, all you're doing is confirming that
he/she has a valid, marketable email address.

3) Be especially leery of any offers from websites for free software,
services, information, etc, that require your email address, or that
require your email address so you can "login" to access the offered
service and/or information. Many such sites are supplementing their
income by collecting addresses to sell to the spammers. For instance,
subscribing to CNN.COM's Breaking News Service will garner you a lot of
additional spam. (Of course, not all such sites have under-handed
motives; it's a judgment call. If the offer seems "too good to be
true," it's most likely a scam.)

4) DO forward any and all spam, with complete headers, to the
originating ISP with a complaint. Not all ISPs will make an effort to
shut down the spammers, but many will. One tool that makes forwarding
such complaints fairly simple is SpamCop (http://spamcop.net).

4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net). This
utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it from the
server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future emails
from them will be automatically deleted from the server.

5) Within Outlook Express, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders
list, so the their messages are automatically deleted from the server
without being downloaded to your PC.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
JewBoy said:
Never ask Spammers to stop, it's like asking Bin Laden to stop praying
Allah.
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Thats like asking Jewboy to stop his retarded posts.

You would have better luck getting Bin Laden to stop.

What a ****ing loser.
 
I would be using something other than Outlook Express in Vista.

If your OS is different then post to the appropriate group - like the
Outlook Express group. Windows Live Mail is the equivalent of Outlook
Express for Vista.

Replying to the spammer just confirms your email is a real address, and
propagates the problem. It's also likely they're using a fake email address
so you won't reach the actual person. Finally since spam is more than
likely sent out by an automatic process rather than an actual person the
request to stop spamming won't reach them....

To help combat the problem, you can set up rules in OE - block senders, or
use an internet security product with an anti-spam component. A free tool
you could use is Mailwasher (www.mailwasher.net) It's a comprehensive
application for eliminating spam. There's also a 'pro' version for a small
payment ($30 NZD or something around that)

One last suggestion, your ISP should or might have anti-spam tools on their
mail server, so the spam should be eliminated before you download it.

Using a combination of the tools mentioned above, I cut down my spam receipt
from around 90 spam emails a day; now a days it's about 10 or less, a day,
and that's from using the same primary email address for at least 15 years
with the same ISP.
 
JewBoy said:
You know what I did?
I used secondary email addfress when posting in Public, etc. where i
knew I get exposed to spammers - including an idiot form this Group who
thought he'd annoy me. Hehe, waste of efforts, you know what I did?

My ISp allows disabling secondary address, and I got a dozen of email
addresses, I simply disable that address - anybody emailing it get it
bounced back with an error, and I keep it disabled for weeks, a month, 2
months, whatever, then suddenly I re-enable it. By that time the
Spammers gets fed up with errors and removes me from target list, and if
not - well I just kill the address permanently. This is all i can do by
using an ISP.

BUT I can do a lot more by using own server, I own servers and 12 domain
names registered thru GoDaddy.com - world's largest registrar (bigger
than Register.com) and there I kill Spammers to the left and to the
right, in droves, it's too long to explain how, but it;s MY soerver, My
domain and no spammers penetrates my protections more than several
times, I control it.

But if you're paying someone to provide you with Internet, e.g. ATT,
cable, whatever, you still have controls - if a person keeps changing
adderesses so Block List doesn't kill them completely, try widening
Killing criteria - e.g. use wildcards, block/ban entire domain, for
example I BANNED entire China, Korea and Malaysia form ever emailing me
by using x-server key or something to ban certain foreign countries,
heck you can even ban whole world except USA & Canada, as this is where
I was getting most spam from - from Africa (Nigeria), Asia and moy home
country, arrrghhhj Russia.
it's funny how they bug me here in USA even though I left that country
17 years ago
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The best solution is to use Thunderbird. Custom view, people I know,
and you will receive no spam.
 
Johnny said:
The best solution is to use Thunderbird. Custom view, people I know,
and you will receive no spam.
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That's utter nonsense. The specific email client one uses has
absolutely no bearing on preventing others, including spammers, from
sending one unwelcome emails.



--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
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