email question

[DAP]

Richard ... Spammers, as they are referred to, in addition to obtaining individual email addresses, will also try to obtain message board access where participants correspond via a message board that automatically sends email to it's members. By including that diverse block of 'searchable' text words, it can be absorbed by search bots, and other search engines as 'key words' and promulgated to these message based email sources as well. Also a fantastic way to send 'worm viruses' on their way also en masse.

Won't be long now ... soon we'll be seeing TBN or reading email on AG machines consoles. Can already do it the car.

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[thcri]

You can take them to the deleted folder and then you select the option to empty deleted folder on exit. That way they go when you exit the program. I wish there was a way that the ISP's could catch the junk and delete them there. Hotmail I think you use to be able to click on accept mail only from people only in your address book and stuff that does not look like spam!

It is a nuisance that we just have to live by unless our government can enforce the rules they have set up.

murph

 

[MadReferee]

To automatically delete messages from the Deleted Items folder on Outlook Express simply goto the Tools menu and select Options then select the Maintenance tab. Check the 'Empty Messages from the Deleted Items folder on exit ' box. Doing this will permanently delete items when you exit out of Outlook Express.

Alternatively, you can select any item in the Deleted Items folder then type CTRL and A to select all items in the folder. Then hit the Delete key. All items in the Deleted Items folder will be permanently removed.

 

[DAP]

Or even right click on the Deleted Items folder and select "Empty Deleted Items Folder" from the context menu that pops up.

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[BillyP]

Yes, it deletes them into the "Deleted Items Folder" but you can set the Deleted Items Folder to be emptied on exit.

Another thing to watch out for with those emails that have an unsubscribe link. If you click and unsubscribe, it tells them your email address is active. Then the @$%^s will sell your address to some other @$%^....

 

[RobertN]

I just tried it, from the "Inbox", if you select a mesage without opening it, and hit "Shift-Delete", it will permanently delete the file from the Inbox. It skips the Delete box... Of course, with Windows, I do not know if it would still hang somewhere on the system.

Our ISP has a filter we pay a buck a month for. It catches most stuff. I can set acceptable addresses; my Uncle sends lots of stuff that get hung up in the filter. I could set it so his address bypasses the filter.

 

[MadReferee]

Spammers are smart. They have software that scans web pages looking for email addresses using algorithms similar to what google does to find information. They then perform various hygiene methods on the emails to insure that they are the right format (there are email address rules!) and have a chance of being delivered. Most spammers remove common email addresses like info@ and sales@. They also change certain keywords that anti-spam software looks for by using delimiting chars and even foreign characters with accent marks. They can also alter the smtp header so that you cannot easily figure out who/where the mail came from.

I have written similar software but for business (not spamming) reasons.

 

[Richard]

Being a patient type, I just forward these to my isp's "spam" address, and then add them to my block list.

If they want to keep sending them, I'll keep blocking them.

I never respond to them using their "no more please" trickery.

I just didn't understand why they'd have that gibberish in the body of the spam.

Geez, don't most of these people (spammers) have real jobs...

 

[Hank]

<font color="purple"> What's up with that diatribe? </font>

It is a ruse to get around ISP-level spam filters. Lots of times, it is just random-appearing text.

Filters are looking for (among other things) messages that are identical in content, but sent to lots of recipients at the same ISP. Bulk emails, IOW.

By varying the "gibberish" at the bottom of the message, spammers make each message appear unique to the filter.

 

[MadReferee]

re: Geez, don't most of these people (spammers) have real jobs...


You bet they do. They are full time spammers!!

90%+ of all email spam comes from companies that are setup to do this full time. They use bogus names and sometimes bogus email accounts. They also change ISP's on a regular basis so they won't get their email privs turned off. You may think it comes from different people but in reality it is coming from the same few corporate entities.