GravityGirl 0 #1 January 10, 2005 I get about 200 - 400 junk e-mails per day. I have a spam guard, but I have to sift through it anyways because some of my business e-mail end up there. But that's not what I'm crying about this morning! It seems that there are different themes that come and go. "Is you Mom in pain?" "I heard your brother is in pain.", etc. But the latest and greatest just make my stomach turn first thing in the morning. The latest and greatest is a cum theme. "Wish you could shoot a bigger load of cum?" "Huge cum shots!", "Impress your girl with your big cum shot!" What the hell! I get about 100 "Cum" e-mails per day. How do I stop the madness?!?! I'm trying to eat breakfast here. And to tell you the truth, huge cum shots don't impress me?!?! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peace and Blue Skies! Bonnie ==>Gravity Gear! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #2 January 10, 2005 Sounds like it could be a sticky subject.... I've heard that baysian filters work very well for that type of stuff... you can set up trigger words that put it right in the trashcan...Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyingferret 0 #3 January 10, 2005 Someday somewhere back in the void that was 'the beginning' some paranoid nerd was screaming "Would you just give out your home address? Would you?" Well, noone listened, people harvested them, and sold them, and now we know. In short there are recent guideline for 'adult spam' Check them http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/legislation/spamlaws02.htm Actually making a practical difference is kinda of hard though. My only suggestion is never release your 'real' email for registrations, etc. I have a spam@ email address on my domain for this, and it is basically a honeypot for junk like this. That being said, I was on the board of a non profit, who did mailings through Yahoo groups, that caused the first ever spam to my 'real' address. So you never know what simple things can start the flood. Once it starts...good luck.-- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #4 January 10, 2005 QuoteI get about 200 - 400 junk e-mails per day. I have a spam guard, but I have to sift through it anyways because some of my business e-mail end up there. But that's not what I'm crying about this morning! It seems that there are different themes that come and go. "Is you Mom in pain?" "I heard your brother is in pain.", etc. But the latest and greatest just make my stomach turn first thing in the morning. The latest and greatest is a cum theme. "Wish you could shoot a bigger load of cum?" "Huge cum shots!", "Impress your girl with your big cum shot!" What the hell! I get about 100 "Cum" e-mails per day. How do I stop the madness?!?! I'm trying to eat breakfast here. And to tell you the truth, huge cum shots don't impress me?!?! It'll dwindle down alot once you stop surfing all the porn sites.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unformed 0 #5 January 10, 2005 well the email address yuo're using right now is fucked. there's nothing you can really do. what i do however, is i signed up with sneakemail.com, (it's free, but they give you a little extra features for a little extra cost) ..... it lets you create new email addresses on the fly for which mail get forwarded to your real address. this is good because if you go to a site and need to provide an address you could give (for example: dropzone-gravitygirl@sneakemail.com) and hide your real address. if it gets spam infested, you jsut go into sneakemail and tell them to block everything to that address. if you just an address temporarily (for some stupid registration or something) make up (whatever)@dodgeit.com and then you can go check the email there at dodgeit.com. it's made for the sole purpose of using disposable addresses for spammers.This ad space for sale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GravityGirl 0 #6 January 10, 2005 Unfortunately, they come at me from all sorts of angles: bonnie@gg.com, sales@gg.com, info@gg.com You get the picture. I just wanted to cry a little. Thanks for listening. Carry on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peace and Blue Skies! Bonnie ==>Gravity Gear! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dougiefresh 0 #7 January 10, 2005 Can't you just block anything from gg.com? Or are you just using gg as a variable?Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gjhdiver 0 #8 January 10, 2005 QuoteI get about 200 - 400 junk e-mails per day. I have a spam guard, but I have to sift through it anyways because some of my business e-mail end up there. Cost of doing business on the web. I used to use my real address for that, but I ended up getting around 6000 spams a month, which renderd it unusable. That's why I use the yahoo address now. I have to say that their spam blocking is excellent. I've yet to see them quarantine anything that I need. Also, if you own your own domain name, you're kind of toast anyway, because a lot of spambots will just unleash torrents of this crap at you with fake postmaster@ and admin@ type addresses. Also, if you are using MS Outlook, search for a file called filters.txt and add in offending words like cum. That will at least get them in the junk pile for you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #9 January 10, 2005 What spam software do you have currently? Based on what you are using I might be able to suggest much better methods of filtering the mail.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyingferret 0 #10 January 10, 2005 Another thing to check is if your emails are posted anywhere. For example in this post, you just published 3 emails for spam. How? "Spider" programs crawl webpages to harvest anything that looks like a valid smtp address. Just having it on your website is enough to get it spammed.-- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #11 January 10, 2005 Yeah, my one email address is published on someone elses website and I can't get the person to remove it Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #12 January 10, 2005 Looks like your inbox likes to swallow __________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slug 1 #13 January 10, 2005 Keep your kids, SO, and anything else that can read away from your computer. Including the cops Anything GG can do to have a clean machine again, (once the spam stops)? Help this poor lady out. R.I.P. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,090 #14 January 10, 2005 They send those to you, and they send me ads for getting bigger boobs. Go figure. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JeepDiver 0 #15 January 10, 2005 GravityGirl, I've been thinking of hanging some wallpaper in my bathroom, what's the return e-mail address of those e-mails?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lummy 4 #16 January 10, 2005 Talk to your provider who is hosting your mail service to see if they have any type of spam filtering available. Where I work and for my home mail server ( I host my own) we use a service which will check for known spam hosts and refuse to even accept mail from those IP's. At work, we're refusing 400 to 500 e-mails a day Your ISP should be happy to reduce the extra load on the mail server.I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GravityGirl 0 #17 January 10, 2005 That wasn't my real e-mail address that I posted. And as far as my spam filter, it's Yahoo. All my aliases at gg go to a yahoo account. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peace and Blue Skies! Bonnie ==>Gravity Gear! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dan_iv 0 #18 January 10, 2005 I get tons of spam email at my office as well, i use "spambayes" for filtering the emails which works quite well! check it out here -> http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyinghonu 0 #19 January 10, 2005 QuoteThey send those to you, and they send me ads for getting bigger boobs. Go figure. Thats funny, they send me ads for a bigger penis, "increase your manhood", etc, etc...maybe they know something I don't "Excuse me while I kiss the sky..." - Jimi Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #20 January 10, 2005 I use Yahoo and find the filter works well, but once in a while, a real email will get filtered to the SPAM folder...Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GravityGirl 0 #21 January 10, 2005 QuoteI use Yahoo and find the filter works well, but once in a while, a real email will get filtered to the SPAM folder... Yeah. That's the problem. My e-mail is dumped into my Yahoo account. THe filter is great, but some "real" e-mail ends up there. I have had customers tell me that they sent a mail and I never got it. So I sift throught the sewage every day. And this week the sewage has been filled with.... ....well, I already told you about that. So! DOES anyone want a bigger load? 'Cause I can probably shoot you in the right direction! (All puns intended). My mail box is clean, I have a fresh cup of coffee, and life is good again. And thanks for the help! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peace and Blue Skies! Bonnie ==>Gravity Gear! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #22 January 10, 2005 If you find the right mail client, you can set a word filter, and just filter the word "cum" out, sending any email that includes it directly into the trash.-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BIGUN 1,443 #23 January 10, 2005 http://w2.syronex.com/jmr/safemailto/Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #24 January 10, 2005 QuoteIf you find the right mail client, you can set a word filter, and just filter the word "cum" out, sending any email that includes it directly into the trash. Thats probably her problem Tom... Maybe she's getting sexy email from Hubby and still some of the cum emails should be kept! Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
