Spam is killing email.

I just came back here because I thought of a line I wish had include in my
rant:
"Viagra Soft Tabs. I could never swallow an oxymoron that big anyway, so
just stop it."

"Ray" wrote in message
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Very good, Al.

Some of my favorites are the warnings from
warning me of my violations, that my email account will be shut down,
etc., etc..

I wonder who that admin might be???

--

Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
Plants, Supplies, Artwork, Books and Lots of Free Info!


"Al" wrote in message
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RANT warning.

About one in 10 emails caught in my spam trap are bounced there from
other spam traps because my email address has been spoofed into the
return email address. Emails I never sent. I have actually received
email from people on my email pass list (Reka among them) that were not
sent by the people they claimed to be from. Even a rare event such as
this coincidence becomes common given the shear scale of spam flowing
through the system.

Email is turning out to be a real nightmare when used for legitimate
communication.

Customers email me questions and then their servers and spam protocols
make me jump through hoops just to respond.

Recently a lot of hotmail and yahoo users act as if I am not responding
to their emails or order inquiries and I am sure a spam trap on these
servers is "protecting" them from my replies and order confirmations.
And I really can't blame the customers if they don't have time to deal
with regular spam trap reviews. It only takes 48 hours for the list of
spam in these directories to grow to mid numbing proportions

My email address is 10 years old. I get hundreds of spam messages every
morning. I have developed a very good spam filter system on my own and
have even taught it to recognize real and fake hotmail addresses. Most
real emails make it through, but it takes 30 to 45 minutes every morning
just to hunt down the one or two legitimate email a week that my spam
filter rules mistake for spam.

No matter how many clues I give on my website to help people get emails
safely by the filters, somehow they never catch on. They manage to find
my email address on the website but miss the clues. The buzz word orchid
in the subject of an email to me is magic. :-) Subjects lines like "a
question about something on your website" is probably going to be missed
if it ends up in the spam trap.

On the other end. I am always finding, "Did you get my order from a few
days ago" emails from people who are wondering if my secure sever is
broken when my actual replies (with the word orchid in the subject) are
buried in their spam directories.

I hate spam. I don't need "Viagra soft tabs" or a new mortgage and I am
not interested in updating my bank account info, so just stop it.

Now I may be a little different than other people in the orchid world,
but for the record all you ORCHID RELATED spammers out there (and some of
you are not in China) , I don't like getting unsolicited email from YOU
either. Don't tell me I asked for it when I visited your site or bought
plants from you. I can assure you I won't make that mistake again. And
I can assure you, after the first one, future UCE from your address never
makes it passed my spam trap so you'll never know what I think of your
marketing techniques. I will not respond with the word 'remove' in the
subject. Sorry. *My* email address. *My* rules. AHHHHHHH

I suspect that last paragraph touched some nerves, but it's just how I
feel. I don't see why I should have to treat orchid related UCE any
different than I treat the Viagra pushers. Its all spam.

Rant concluded. Peace be with you.

"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
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Electric fence?

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:57:36 +1000, "Kye" wrote:

When you figure out how to do it, please pass it along. I have my own
first
born due in June.

Kye.

"J Fortuna" wrote in message
news:2Ituf.16832$z45.2184@trnddc02...
Kenni,

Got your email. Thanks. Unfortunately could not respond since your
email
server thinks I am a spammer, and the instructions it provided for
remedying this were too complex for me to follow at this time
(contacting
my ISP and asking them to change some setting in my Web Mail).

I have started thinking of childproofing the orchids, but have not
started
acting on it yet. For now Robert is thankfully not a danger to them
yet,
but I know that this will change in no time at all.

Best,
Joanna


Dave Gillingham
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