skybytch 273 #1 September 4, 2002 I hate the first of the month. I check my email first thing when I get to work in the morning. Today I had 850 emails waiting for me. Holy long time downloading batman! And that's nothing... one day I came to work to find 1000+! Why? Well, we do a monthly special/contest email that is sent out to everyone who has registered on our website (note: it is not sent out to those who email any @square1.com address asking questions or placing orders, nor do we harvest email addresses from orders placed from our website - we hate spam as much as you do). We send the email out on or real close to the first of every month. All the "bounces" - bad email addresses, those who've changed emails and not updated their registration and those whose hotmail accounts are over the storage limit - come to my inbox. So tomorrow I get to wade through 790 emails, collect the "bad" addresses and put them in a text file so one of our webgods can remove them all from the database. They keep telling me what I do was more work in the days before computers. I think they're lying to me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #2 September 4, 2002 Get any of the "Gain 3inches" or "Penis enlarger" or my personal favorite "increase ejaculation by 381%!" spams?--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #3 September 4, 2002 QuoteGet any of the "Gain 3inches" or "Penis enlarger" or my personal favorite "increase ejaculation by 381%!" spams? Yup. At least 10 per day. Along with the "buy Viagra online", "free porn passwords", "refinance your house", "see me naked on my new webcam", and the Nigerian millions scam. Those were the 30 or so I deleted as soon as they came in. Which left the 790 for tomorrow and the 20 or so legitimate work related emails that I answered. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drenaline 0 #4 September 4, 2002 Hey Lisa one of those is from me, sorry didn't know you got so many emails at the start of the month, next time I'll email ya a week after. Quote"free porn passwords" Bastards its never free! HISPA 21 www.panamafreefall.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #5 September 4, 2002 QuoteHey Lisa one of those is from me Really? Damn, it must be buried in the mess. I thought I'd scrolled through them slow enough to find all the important ones. I'll look for it first thing in the morning and get back to you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites indyz 1 #6 September 4, 2002 Do you know how to set up filtering in your email client? If you don't, have somebody show you, then filter all of the bounced messages into another folder and take care of them when you have time, instead of clogging up the whole inbox. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skybytch 273 #7 September 4, 2002 Quotetake care of them when you have time, instead of clogging up the whole inbox. Problem with that is... out of sight, out of mind. If I leave 'em in the inbox, I'll deal with them a whole lot sooner than if they're hidden away in another folder. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites sangiro 26 #8 September 4, 2002 Hmmm... there's an easy way to do this... Filter all the bounced emails to a directory. Export that directory to a file - basically in any format, and then get an Email Sniffer to go through that file and grab all the email addresses for you. Export the results to a comma delimited file and give to the techie. Will take minutes. I'll email you a shareware program this evening when I get home that I use for this. Also, you may want to validate your mailing list before sending emails. You can do it from your PC with no server. Follow the link below to a great set of mail tools. Check out the Advanced Maillist Verify and the Advanced Email Extractor. I use the first but use a shareware program for the latter. http://www.mailutilities.com/Safe swoops Sangiro Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites lazide 0 #9 September 4, 2002 Even easier way Setup some mailing list software designed for the purpose (NUMEROUS ones are available for free, and widely used for public mailing lists on the order of hundreds of thousands of subscribers) Any modern mailing list software will handle bounces completly automatically. There are tons of different ways to do it, all of which result in on outcome - no manual handling of bounces Almost all allow verifying subcribers before subscribing them to the liist, etc. Most are also hella fast.--- 'Damn, I sure wish I would of kept that pretty silver handle' - cutaway ruminations Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites FallRate 0 #10 September 4, 2002 OK, I didn't actually read your post, but I'm thinking that you should delete every one of them and claim some kind of computer glitch! FallRate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites vidiot 0 #11 September 4, 2002 Lisa, if you use M$-Outlook, have a look at http://www.cloudmark.com/ to reduce the spam in your inbox. Hope it helps, KlausMy Logbook Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Muenkel 0 #12 September 4, 2002 QuoteYup. At least 10 per day. Along with the "buy Viagra online", "free porn passwords", "refinance your house", "see me naked on my new webcam", and the Nigerian millions scam. I can help you with those. Just forward them to me. BTW, Titiana is not a skydiver. Also Britney and J Lo F@#$%^ing is not skydiving related. _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites drenaline 0 #13 September 4, 2002 How do you know that sangiro is the HH? he talks with so weird tech stuff that you understand absolutely nothing HISPA 21 www.panamafreefall.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0
indyz 1 #6 September 4, 2002 Do you know how to set up filtering in your email client? If you don't, have somebody show you, then filter all of the bounced messages into another folder and take care of them when you have time, instead of clogging up the whole inbox. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #7 September 4, 2002 Quotetake care of them when you have time, instead of clogging up the whole inbox. Problem with that is... out of sight, out of mind. If I leave 'em in the inbox, I'll deal with them a whole lot sooner than if they're hidden away in another folder. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sangiro 26 #8 September 4, 2002 Hmmm... there's an easy way to do this... Filter all the bounced emails to a directory. Export that directory to a file - basically in any format, and then get an Email Sniffer to go through that file and grab all the email addresses for you. Export the results to a comma delimited file and give to the techie. Will take minutes. I'll email you a shareware program this evening when I get home that I use for this. Also, you may want to validate your mailing list before sending emails. You can do it from your PC with no server. Follow the link below to a great set of mail tools. Check out the Advanced Maillist Verify and the Advanced Email Extractor. I use the first but use a shareware program for the latter. http://www.mailutilities.com/Safe swoops Sangiro Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lazide 0 #9 September 4, 2002 Even easier way Setup some mailing list software designed for the purpose (NUMEROUS ones are available for free, and widely used for public mailing lists on the order of hundreds of thousands of subscribers) Any modern mailing list software will handle bounces completly automatically. There are tons of different ways to do it, all of which result in on outcome - no manual handling of bounces Almost all allow verifying subcribers before subscribing them to the liist, etc. Most are also hella fast.--- 'Damn, I sure wish I would of kept that pretty silver handle' - cutaway ruminations Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallRate 0 #10 September 4, 2002 OK, I didn't actually read your post, but I'm thinking that you should delete every one of them and claim some kind of computer glitch! FallRate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vidiot 0 #11 September 4, 2002 Lisa, if you use M$-Outlook, have a look at http://www.cloudmark.com/ to reduce the spam in your inbox. Hope it helps, KlausMy Logbook Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muenkel 0 #12 September 4, 2002 QuoteYup. At least 10 per day. Along with the "buy Viagra online", "free porn passwords", "refinance your house", "see me naked on my new webcam", and the Nigerian millions scam. I can help you with those. Just forward them to me. BTW, Titiana is not a skydiver. Also Britney and J Lo F@#$%^ing is not skydiving related. _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drenaline 0 #13 September 4, 2002 How do you know that sangiro is the HH? he talks with so weird tech stuff that you understand absolutely nothing HISPA 21 www.panamafreefall.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
