Tons of unsolicited e-mail

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I have been receiving tons of unsolicited e-mail. When I
say tons, I mean about 10,000 per day. My norton places
them in my deleted mail, but I want to stop this. Any
ideas?
 
Using Message Rules in Outlook Express
http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/email/os/windows/outlook_express_5/853/

Fighting Unwanted Email (Spam)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spam/fightspam.mspx

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|I have been receiving tons of unsolicited e-mail. When I
| say tons, I mean about 10,000 per day. My norton places
| them in my deleted mail, but I want to stop this. Any
| ideas?
 
Greetings --

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. (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
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I keep creating Message Rules to delete messages with certain content in the
body, and they say "Accepted", and turn up in the list -- but they are never
deleted. One of them did work for one day, and then stopped again -- even
though subsequent spams have been identical.
 
I have been receiving tons of unsolicited e-mail. When I
say tons, I mean about 10,000 per day. My norton places
them in my deleted mail, but I want to stop this. Any
ideas?
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Stephen, if you are receiving literally 10,000 spam messages every
day, its time to:
1) Change your email address.
2) Give the new address out to no one but your most intimate family
and friends and your employers.
3) Stop publishing your email address on the Web.
4) Stop giving out your email address to everyone who comes down the
pike, especially to websites who ask for it.

Not only are YOU receiving these 10,000 messages per day, but your ISP
is receiving them on its email server, and is dutifully delivering
them to your Inbox. I'm sure your ISP is not happy about this. These
messages clog your ISP's server's bandwidth, making it harder for
OTHER subscribers to receive THEIR email.

If you want to be a good "Netizen", follow my advice as soon as
possible.

Donald L McDaniel
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Are you by chance receiving your mail through your own domain? If so you
might have to disable the reception of alias messages. Some spammers are
using programs to generate thousands of alias addresses at single domains
i.e. bob@yourdomain, bill, barry, etc....
 
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