Overgaard Posted August 21, 2006 Share #1 Posted August 21, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) I don't know how I would survive a weekend with a PC. I wonder how other people get by. But I'm happy to see my spam filter nicely sorted 5,000+ spam and virus mails that arrived over the weeekend into a seperate folder, ready for demolition. (And to those who originated those 5,000+ mails: Get a life!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 21, 2006 Posted August 21, 2006 Hi Overgaard, Take a look here Off Topic: Unattended Mac's. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
TimF Posted August 21, 2006 Share #2 Posted August 21, 2006 5,0000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Definitely some of your "correspondents" need to go through their drives with a fine tooth comb to eliminate the crap there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest leica_mage Posted August 21, 2006 Share #3 Posted August 21, 2006 I don't know how I would survive a weekend with a PC. I wonder how other people get by. And I wonder how other people get by without a Sony Vaio + 16" "black onyx" screen for those times that one must view photographs online... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted August 21, 2006 Share #4 Posted August 21, 2006 Let's not let this drift into choppy waters, guys... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted August 21, 2006 Share #5 Posted August 21, 2006 Thorsten, that's an astounding number. I have just checked and I have had a total of 68 in the last two weeks. Have you no filters or rules on your ISP's server to stop these things before they get as far as your personal mailbox? They are a curse of modern life, whatever monitor you use, and will remain so as long as sending emails is free Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted August 21, 2006 Author Share #6 Posted August 21, 2006 And I wonder how other people get by without a Sony Vaio + 16" "black onyx" screen for those times that one must view photographs online... Never heard of that one. Only offfers I get is to loose weight, make love forever and become a 20" monster while my investments are being taken care of by exotic bankers... ;-) Well, it wasn't an advertisment for Apple. At least not meant to be. I'm just happy such a spam/virus filter exists. For the same reason I have no setup with the ISP. I just recieve and delete. Occasional I catch a mail that went wrong and was not a spam mail. My incoming spams exploded about a year ago when someone used my domain name as sender for some millions (or billions) spams. Which is not logical. But a fact. Most spammers must be some stupid illerate f....s as they often forget to add a link in their mails. Why anyone would advertise to millions without adding a link so that people can buy their silly products is beyond me. Anyway, the offf-topic message was simply: Be happy for a normal, productive monday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest leica_mage Posted August 21, 2006 Share #7 Posted August 21, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) And I just wanted to tease a Mac user... Can't resist a good tease! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whorg Posted August 21, 2006 Share #8 Posted August 21, 2006 Being new to this forum, yet having massive experience in e-mail systems, here's my two cents. Sorry if this has been covered before, but it's still pertinent. Here's what I do for spam. I use several e-mail accounts, keeping some "ultra-private" . . . they've yet to become as polluted as others in my arsenal. Bear in mind, set your (most important) e-mail client to "not display" graphics files within a message. These imbedded images (may) have tags that understand they are being "displayed" on your machine, then send back info to their originating servers "telling" those computers that your e-mail address is indeed active and being used. Sneaky . . . Be careful about registering software, web-site subscriptions, forums, etc . . . I use separate e-mail addresses for: 1. private communications between close friends and family 2. purchasing anything on the web 3. registering any software or hardware on the web 4. registering forum access for each separate interest/hobby 5. banking/finance/investments 6. business/employer accounts That's all I can think of at this moment. We ran a central e-mail server for my previous employer's (undergraduate admission department) for a big Ivy League school here in New England . . . we received over 65,000 (on average) spams per month, it simply became an operational issue that was "out-of-hand" . . . we finally went to an on-line message/mail page coupled with a weekly "chat" session . . . Remember, there are spam mail servers that process mail to every possible combination of e-mail alpha/numeric possibility, by simply opening/responding to these messages, you are IN THE LOOP for their future processing and list sales to others. Once again, sorry if this is annoying or obtrusive . . . but I hate spam. ~josef Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted August 21, 2006 Share #9 Posted August 21, 2006 I am not going to bother to comment about this one... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pxlpal2 Posted August 21, 2006 Share #10 Posted August 21, 2006 But you just did.... Regards, Frank M. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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