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Old 04-10-2003, 11:12 AM
Dick
 
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Default I'm receiving strange email. Is it because I have posted in this newsgroup?

I have wondered why I was getting hundreds of bad stuff and a friend
using the same ISP had none. He browses the web often and signs up
for stuff more than I do. So, newsgroups sound right to me.

I got my ISP to filter and am down to 20 to 40 a day. I bought
"Mailwasher" which allows me to "Bounce" a message back as though my
address is bogus. That seems to help. Mailwasher also lets me know
many things about each message which allows me to make decisions such
as delete, blacklist in addition to the filters. Viagra and "penis"
enlargement are sure a nuisance. I haven't found a filter word that
catches all of them, same with viagra.

I sure miss the good old days without this bad stuff.


On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 13:46:26 GMT, "Jimmy"
wrote:

I have been getting email for different addresses all saying the same thing,
plus they have an attachment with them that I do not open.

This is an example of what one says:
***beginning***
"Hi.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to deliver your message to one or more destinations.



Undeliverable message to "
***ending***

Is anyone else getting messages like this?
I have ran all kinds of virus scans and they say my PC is clean. Any feed
back would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim