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When I opened my Email this morning it started down loading and just
didn't stop, when it reached 5807 I loged off and phoned the firm hosting my website. They should have had spam blocker on my account. They had to delete my in box, This was their email to me "All done, you had 7,500 junk emails hitting your account from what looked like a spammer in Russia." I dont know if that is as well as those I downloaded or not. Some nice person had spamed using my address and I got all the rejects saying mail could not be delivered. I'll probably get more for the next couple of days. Dont you just love the internet, David Hill |
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On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:46:09 +0100, Dave Hill wrote
(in article ): When I opened my Email this morning it started down loading and just didn't stop, when it reached 5807 I loged off and phoned the firm hosting my website. They should have had spam blocker on my account. They had to delete my in box, This was their email to me "All done, you had 7,500 junk emails hitting your account from what looked like a spammer in Russia." I dont know if that is as well as those I downloaded or not. Some nice person had spamed using my address and I got all the rejects saying mail could not be delivered. I'll probably get more for the next couple of days. Dont you just love the internet, Two things you could do to help in future, one is to mask your email address on your web site, which I see has not been done at present (just looked at your source code). Secondly, and even more effective, is to use a contact form instead of an email address. However, now that it has been spammed you might need to invent a new email address and ditch the old one! Best of luck. -- Sally in Shropshire, UK Posted through uk.rec.gardening |
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from Sally Thompson contains these words: Two things you could do to help in future, one is to mask your email address on your web site, which I see has not been done at present (just looked at your source code). Secondly, and even more effective, is to use a contact form instead of an email address. However, now that it has been spammed you might need to invent a new email address and ditch the old one! Yup. Good advice. My e-mail address on the wibble is reached from a link, and is in the form of a jpeg. Any sighted person can read it, but spambots can't harvest it. I have been given a tag to put in the alt="" element of the a href="" bit, but haven't got round to it yet. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:46:09 -0800 (PST), Dave Hill
wrote: When I opened my Email this morning it started down loading and just didn't stop, when it reached 5807 I loged off and phoned the firm hosting my website. They should have had spam blocker on my account. They had to delete my in box, Tough Dave Hope it rights itself quickly. Goos luck Pam in Bristol |
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from Pam Moore contains these words: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:46:09 -0800 (PST), Dave Hill wrote: When I opened my Email this morning it started down loading and just didn't stop, when it reached 5807 I loged off and phoned the firm hosting my website. They should have had spam blocker on my account. They had to delete my in box, Tough Dave Hope it rights itself quickly. Goos luck Goos luck? Isn't that what they leave littered outside yer back door? -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:15:25 +0000, Pam Moore
wrote: Tough Dave Hope it rights itself quickly. Goos luck. Oops. You know what I meant! Pam in Bristol |
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"Dave Hill" wrote ... When I opened my Email this morning it started down loading and just didn't stop, when it reached 5807 I loged off and phoned the firm hosting my website. They should have had spam blocker on my account. They had to delete my in box, This was their email to me "All done, you had 7,500 junk emails hitting your account from what looked like a spammer in Russia." I dont know if that is as well as those I downloaded or not. Some nice person had spamed using my address and I got all the rejects saying mail could not be delivered. I'll probably get more for the next couple of days. Dont you just love the internet, What annoys me is that it's quite easy to miss an important mail because the filter puts it into your Spam file with hundreds of others so it's easily missed. Happened to me two days ago. -- Regards Bob Hobden |
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from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: What annoys me is that it's quite easy to miss an important mail because the filter puts it into your Spam file with hundreds of others so it's easily missed. Happened to me two days ago. Our filter moves them to a separate mailbox and tells you how many, if an, mails have been moved. After two days (period can, IIRC, be adjusted) they are dumped. So easy just to look in the 'deleted items' mailbox and see if anything shouldn't be there. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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"Rusty_Hinge" wrote after "Bob Hobden"wrote: What annoys me is that it's quite easy to miss an important mail because the filter puts it into your Spam file with hundreds of others so it's easily missed. Happened to me two days ago. Our filter moves them to a separate mailbox and tells you how many, if an, mails have been moved. After two days (period can, IIRC, be adjusted) they are dumped. So easy just to look in the 'deleted items' mailbox and see if anything shouldn't be there. Our filter does the same, directs them to a Spam File but it's still easy to miss a wrongly directed mail from a new correspondent amongst a couple of hundred junk mails, as happened to me a few days ago. People in my address book are never put in the spam file but this person was new and I didn't know their e-mail address. -- Regards Bob Hobden |
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from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: Our filter does the same, directs them to a Spam File but it's still easy to miss a wrongly directed mail from a new correspondent amongst a couple of hundred junk mails, as happened to me a few days ago. People in my address book are never put in the spam file but this person was new and I didn't know their e-mail address. Hmm. I rarely get more than three spam items in a download. Can't remember having more than six. Nearly all my spam ATM is phishing. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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On 5 Nov, 19:38, Rusty_Hinge wrote:
The message from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: Our filter does the same, directs them to a Spam File but it's still easy to miss a wrongly directed mail from a new correspondent amongst a couple of hundred junk mails, as happened to me a few days ago. People in my address book are never put in the spam file but this person was new and I didn't know their e-mail address. Hmm. I rarely get more than three spam items in a download. Can't remember having more than six. Nearly all my spam ATM is phishing. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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from Dave Hill contains these words: On 5 Nov, 19:38, Rusty_Hinge wrote: The message from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: Our filter does the same, directs them to a Spam File but it's still easy to miss a wrongly directed mail from a new correspondent amongst a couple of hundred junk mails, as happened to me a few days ago. People in my address book are never put in the spam file but this person was new and I didn't know their e-mail address. Hmm. I rarely get more than three spam items in a download. Can't remember having more than six. Nearly all my spam ATM is phishing. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig Harry? That you? -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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On 5 Nov, 19:38, Rusty_Hinge wrote:
The message from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: Our filter does the same, directs them to a Spam File but it's still easy to miss a wrongly directed mail from a new correspondent amongst a couple of hundred junk mails, as happened to me a few days ago. People in my address book are never put in the spam file but this person was new and I didn't know their e-mail address. Hmm. I rarely get more than three spam items in a download. Can't remember having more than six. Nearly all my spam ATM is phishing. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig It's OK saying to change my email address, but when it has been in use for several years and is the one that is known to customers, press and others it isn't so easy without loosing a lot of contacts, orders etc. I find I am often listed in articles as a supplier but am seldom contacted to check before publication. I find rhat a couple of hundred spam a day is fairly normal, many of them now in Russian. I use a spam filter and scan quickly for items that have been picked up by accident, but if you are going to check them all then there is no point in having a filter. I have to do a new web site and the idea of masking my email address is a good point David Hill Abacus Nurseries |
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The message
from Dave Hill contains these words: It's OK saying to change my email address, but when it has been in use for several years and is the one that is known to customers, press and others it isn't so easy without loosing a lot of contacts, orders etc. I find I am often listed in articles as a supplier but am seldom contacted to check before publication. I don't think anyone suggested you should change your address, but you could do with a better spam management régime. How you go about that is your pigeon. I find rhat a couple of hundred spam a day is fairly normal, many of them now in Russian. The trick is to try not to release directly your address on Usenet or the WWW. Look at http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ and see how mine's hidden from the spambots. (That's one way, anyway) I use a spam filter and scan quickly for items that have been picked up by accident, but if you are going to check them all then there is no point in having a filter. Well, with the number you attract I can't fault that observation. See above. I have to do a new web site and the idea of masking my email address is a good point Bah! Obscure-rays! Do it in your Usenet address too. (See my sig - it doesn't have to be that obfuscated, though.) -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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