Fosters

I usually get between 20 and 40 spam emails a day (at home this is) divided between meeting people, p0rn, weight loss, debt erradication, etc.

I've been using outlooks rules to detect mails from people and automatically send them to the deleted folder.

...until recently some idiot came up with the idea to send mails from different names, so I get one email from a weight loss place each day and each day it's from Veronica, Louise, Sarah, Tim, etc, so outlook's rules are useless!!

Now I just find I'm creating more and more rules!

Anyone got better ideas?

BlueBlood

Lots

MessageLabs

IanW

I only seem to get sent the spam to one of my accounts, I use CloudMark SpamNet which seems to be pretty effective.

Dream Weaver

About 20, just delete them and thats it.

Fosters

gonna give spamNet a go. cheers Ian.

AndyC_772

iTrader: (2)

It may not be much help to you now, but I do find that prevention is much better than cure. I'm very careful about where I use my real email address; I don't ever include it unaltered in posts to newsgroups or forums, and certainly never include it in USENET headers.

When I do have to supply it, I usually use an address that helps trace exactly where it's come from - having your own domain registered is invaluable for this. For example, if you're ordering something from www.dodgy-supplier.com, give them your email address as dodgy-supplier@your.domain.co.uk - that way, you know exactly who's leaked your email address onto a spam list. Once you've completed a transaction with such a company, you can always just block that address anyway and you won't even get that company's spam.

Of course, if you're already on a spam list then that doesn't help too much - but you can always register a new domain name and send it out to everyone whom you actually want to hear from.

For what it's worth, a ScoobyNet profile seems to be a safe place to put your address - I've not had a problem yet.

Andy.

jameswrx

iTrader: (4)

i started with ntl broadband recently, the first time i checked the email there was loads of emails for ****, weightloss, viagra etc etc.
Do they give your email out before you do?
I never had any before ntl

albob

James
I'd agree with you - no spam before joining Ntl
Started getting it after join on 'free'!!??!!. Used 'MailWasher' to get it down to an acceptable level - then swopped to Broadband,
and was Swamped!!
Funnily, my email addy thru the set top box thingy gets none!?

alan

[Edited by albob - 3/25/2003 9:01:28 PM]

Soulgirl

Yipee for SpamNet. I use that religiously! No good if you only use Outlook Express though.. use the other mentioned software, MailWasher instead.

I get about 200 mails a day and so far, in about a year, I have stopped... as quoted from the spamnet sig I activated... "I've stopped 19,370 spam messages. You can too!
Get your free, safe spam protection at http://www.cloudmark.com/spamnetsig/"

I also activated rules to stop a load of emails from unsavoury **** sites but they tend to use different headers each time so its very difficult to stop them on a one to one basis. How did I get all that port spam? I have not the foggiest!