andrewdelvard

Seriously I'm getting sick of these emails. God knows what curse I invoked to recieve as many as I do. But revenge...Can be sweet. What can I send them to somehow get my own back?

mj

do what i did - send em' a picture of the "old man".
never bothered me since

andrewdelvard

Ha! Ha!
I don't believe you! Did you?....Really?

stevencotton

If you respond to _any_ spam you are just confirming your email address works and they will send you more.

Steve.

andrewdelvard

Yeah I realise that, I just want to have some fun.

mj

no, but if I had a massive tadger that would be my first approach

ProperCharlie

the only solution is www.mailwasher.net

this allows you to bounce back their mails. if everyone did this there wouldn't be any point in spam anymore, therefore it would eventually stop.

only slight problem is lots of spam comes with an invalid return address. some ISPs are looking into the possibility of configuring thier servers to reject all mail that does not contain a valid return address.

charlie.

Tiggs

responding to spam/junk mail/cold calls is pointless. the ppl calling/spaming/mailing do it every day to millions of ppl, they get thousands of daft responses and dont give a toss...they still make money otherwise they wouldnt do it.

just ignore it, anyone who thinks that stuff like leaving the coldcaller on hold is gonna reduce the caller to tears and make them quit is somewhat mistaken!

T

AndyC_772

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I agree that email spam is best ignored and deleted.

Junk phone calls can actually be prevented - register with the Telephone Preference Service, the lesser known equivalent of the Mailing Preference Service that deals with junk mail. I just don't get junk calls at all

A.

EvilBevel

Charlie, Mailwasher works OK indeed, and the big advantage is that you can delete/bounce without actually downloading the emails.

That said, the spammers don't even care about bounced mails, I had mails from addresses I have bounced to about a dozen times now.

Downside: I have by occasion accidently deleted emails that were genuine but were marked as spam because someone on the same domain is "dodgy".

When an email addy gets into their lists, it's best to close it down and start a new one from time to time. A pain, I know, but when you get about 100 of them per day, it gets very tiring of trying to sort out the good/bad/ugly.

scooby nutter

I usually send some back to the original email addy where it came from.10,000 mails usually does the trick.
be sure to send a nice attachement with each mail

[Edited by scooby nutter - 2/18/2003 7:37:02 PM]

andrewdelvard

I'll send a few pics of my car

Sheepsplitter

I had an offer from one of these adverts today. It talked about the opportunity to extend my ***** by 2 inches. The trouble is what would one do with a 14" *****? I suppose I could wrap it round my neck and use it as a scarf, it's a bit chilly out.

chiark

...any doubts about your username's origin have just disappeared

Kosy

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lol