09-27-2003, 09:40 AM | #1 |
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I was reading a magazine from columbia house ya know those people who say buy 1 dvd now recieve 29 free in a year...after you buy fifty in the next two days. Well anyway i was looking at the monthy python ad and it said the word spam was used in a skit and now its used for junk e-mail. Is this a lie or actully true?
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09-27-2003, 10:56 AM | #2 | |
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[ 09-27-2003, 10:57 AM: Message edited by: Nerull ]
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09-27-2003, 11:09 AM | #3 | |
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Not just USA I might add, the rest of the world as well. Here in holland yo can put a big NO-NO sticker on your door that says that you do NOT want unadressed mail, but they through it in your mailbox all the same, probably on order from there distributer ...
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09-27-2003, 07:41 PM | #4 | |
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All I have now is the image of a large group of vikings chanting "Spam, spam, spam, spammity spam, spam..." etc.
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09-28-2003, 03:31 PM | #5 | |
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All I have now is the image of a large group of vikings chanting "Spam, spam, spam, spammity spam, spam..." etc. [/QUOTE]Vikings? In Australia?! weird...
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09-29-2003, 09:42 AM | #6 |
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i get tons of spam its such a big problem in the usa...
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09-29-2003, 11:34 AM | #7 | |
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[*] You have answered to a SPAM mail. Ex: You send a mail to tell the sender NOT to send more of those emails [*] You use your Out-of-Office assistant to reply to emails from ALL senders (also SPAM mails) [*] You have put your email address on one or more homepages as someone@somewhere.com, there are SPAM bots searching for the '@' code. [*] You enter your email address on 'sign up here for free junk' homepages [*] You have had a virus/trojan on your machine Have at least 2 email addresses: 1 for real and 1 for SPAM. The real ones you use for work, mailing your friends etc. The other SPAM accounts, you can use when you are not sure, if you are put on someones SPAM list. Your real accounts you can check for new mails as often as you like. The others you can check once in a while and throw away all the mails, because you know nothing is of importance. [img]graemlins/greenbounce.gif[/img] Insane
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09-29-2003, 01:18 PM | #8 |
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Unfortunately many of the ones I get are from none of those. Instead they're from scripts that people have that send to any possibility of blahblahblah at
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09-29-2003, 10:09 PM | #9 | |
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Always, always make sure you have a good filter, then set the filter to max level. The exception being if you get a ton of emails from different sources in that one email address (i.e. you use it for business purposes), and even then if you know you get a bunch from only a few clients, you can always set the filter high and just set those clients as "protected" so they don't end up in the junk mail folder. I hate spam. The genie is out of the bottle on it, and politicians are trying to clean up after the fact (kind of like the RIAA...). Still it is an incredible invasion, much like excessive junk mail.
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09-30-2003, 07:47 AM | #10 |
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on my old e-mail address i got around 20 spam mails every day, and if i could'nt use it for a longer period of time the account limit usually got full, and sometimes important mail got lost
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