OT:RANT

[bot2600]

With all the crap they push through into law nowadays, I wish they would make one PRODUCTIVE law. I wish they would sentence death to people who E-Mail spam. JESUS! I use my own smtp-server and use an email address on it that I use for nothing but signing up for stuff that I think will get me on a spam list, but all of a sudden my main account just started getting spam. several pieces a day. I dont know where the hell I used it, but dasm! And most of them if you reply with remove like the directions say, it just back as undeliverable, and you cant trace down the mail server and complain to the admin because they usually use crappy yahoo mail or something. I think we need a friggin petition. Sorry 😱 I feel better now.

Bot

 

[seaquake]

It has gotten real bad. Spammers have gotten ahold of @home's distro lists and have been using them like crazy. If you have your own DNS domain, you can send back to the administrator of an offending domain telling them that you do not wish to receive emails from them. Future emails will incur a processing cost...etc... There was a guy on the inet who did this and got it to work sometimes...I could not find the article or page, though.

Many of the spam items come from a one time use of a free hotmail or yahoo account so there isn't much we as end users can do.

IT SUCKS @ss

 

[Evadman]

I tried logging intomy hotmail account that I created a few months ago to find it inactive, so I re-activated it. When I reactivated it there were no e-mails in it at all. ( it deleted them ) the next day when I logged in, I had a message that showed over my limit, with 400+ e-mails wating, and that was with the spam filter on 🙂 Now I remember why I stopped using that account 🙂

 

[mastertech01]

Hotmail is SPAM CITY! :|

I suggest to NEVER reply, even to remove from thier mailing lists. I think they rely on THAT more than anything else, as if you reply AT ALL, they know its an active account and will just sell your active addy to someone else. Thats when you start to see more and more popping in. They also have address generators and bots and such to find addys to send to. Just delete and hope they stop after awhile.

 

[Wiz]

I also run an email server.
I can't afford all the latest greatest upgrades and such but I do have some AI installed that looks for spam and deletes it before the user gets it.
There has been a major increase since 1/1/02. This month it has trapped and deleted over 3500 spams.
I've had two compaints that a client was failing to receive something thay wanted, and made adjustments both times within minutes of when they complained. After hearing the explanation of why they were more than grateful.

There's got to be a better way. ORBZ simply does not work right. It's far to simple to "prove" to their system you are not a bad guy, and on the other hand it's far too easy to be banned as a bad guy when you are not.

If you don't have something on the server trapping the crap and sending something like: 500 your message was blocked
at a minimum then you are just fair game.

Also if your server software relays and you don't limit outgoing messages to less than 10 then you are a menace.

I've been an internet email admin since 1995, I think I have "seen it all".
But you never know...

 

[Shuxclams]

BLACKHOLE You can use the RBL to stop it. 🙂













SHUX

 

[narzy]

<< It has gotten real bad. Spammers have gotten ahold of @home's distro lists and have been using them like crazy. If you have your own DNS domain, you can send back to the administrator of an offending domain telling them that you do not wish to receive emails from them. Future emails will incur a processing cost...etc... There was a guy on the inet who did this and got it to work sometimes...I could not find the article or page, though.

Many of the spam items come from a one time use of a free hotmail or yahoo account so there isn't much we as end users can do.

IT SUCKS @ss >>



ya they got ahold of it, cause @home sold it to them. it was a last ditch effort to raise the funds they needed.