I don't know why I didn't think of this a long time ago! I was noticing a pattern of certain porn spam (bright yellow background and large blue text) were all from falseanddifferenteverytime@yahoo.com and as I don't get any personal email at my hotmail account from yahoo, I blocked all yahoo "addresses", then another trashy one was was from false@exite.com....blocked that too. So today, I have had three spams instead of 50 :D

Okay I know these addresses aren't real, but hotmail sees the false ones as the sender. I think it would be a waste of a mouse click to try and block lame ones like unno@uhgoralia.gzf though :rolleyes:

Well done, but it does mean you will block all email from Yahoo and Excite users. Times are changing, and the world is becoming weary of spam. Every day, the senate is working to pass new anti-spam laws, and it should be only a matter of time before action is taken against spammers.

Hotmail is the worst for spam, as we all know, and I dont think they are taking is lying down, Microsoft holds great investment in Hotmail, and as people move away to non-spammed accounts they are getting angry.

Change is in the air, and I hope it happens sooner rather than later.

Luke

Yes I chose it to block all yahoo and excite...blocking the very obvious false addresses wouldn't have done a thing..

here is another one to block

*@*.*

Originally posted by simonclark
here is another one to block

*@*.*

:rolleyes:

Grow up. As if anon's going to fall for that one.

I had ignored it already BC ;)

Yea... I have a POP3 email account which gets 50-100 spam messages a day, its crazy :angry:

It's an extra hour a day I can spend at the beach instead of reporting spam :cool: :beer:

I've eliminated my spam to zero!

I deleted my inbox.

:D

Dont make me start on the spam in my helpdesk!

For POP3 email I found a nice little program called SpamPal. It' a windows program that runs as a proxy between your email client and your server and uses DNSBL lists to tag spam. You can then set up rules in your email client to deal with the tagged messages. It also has several plugins so that you can tag messages based on other criteria instead of just the DNSBL lists.

http://www.spampal.org.uk/

Richard

Originally posted by SpiritAu
Dont make me start on the spam in my helpdesk!

Ugh......coolstats.com :mad:

Richard

Originally posted by Noldar
For POP3 email I found a nice little program called SpamPal. It' a windows program that runs as a proxy between your email client and your server and uses DNSBL lists to tag spam. You can then set up rules in your email client to deal with the tagged messages. It also has several plugins so that you can tag messages based on other criteria instead of just the DNSBL lists.

http://www.spampal.org.uk/

Richard Nice will check that one out :D

make your own email client. everytime theres porn sex and your mom in the post. you send 100 emails back to them and then block just incase they try for war :)

Well Kane, the majority of the time they are false addresses, so you end up sending them to some poor joe in Ohio, or even worse, they all bounce straight back.

A word of advice though, reporting spam at this moment in time is fruitless, as is the click here to remove link, usually, clicking on a link like that just confirms that you are a user reading their spam, but as for reporting, unless you are friendly with an sprint/aol/rr/hotmail etc administrator the majority of the time your complaint is just dropped.

Luke

Hehehe,

YES blocking *@*.* would take care of it,wouldnt it????? (hehehe)

The Dude :D