Spam in email...

[Semjaza]

A law was recently passed (as in the past week) that makes unsolicited e-mails basically illegal. I forget the site exactly, but you forward those e-mails to them and they are added to their list of people to go after. It's some government site.

I guess this should take care of a lot of the spam I get. I get very little, but what I do get doesn't let me unsubscribe. The link doesn't work or if you try to reply it tells you the e-mail doesn't exist, etc.

[Guest Bloodsin]

What is wrong with you people?
You don't like to take 2-minutes to delete spam, yet you feel inclined to take 2-minutes to complain about the 2-minutes you wasted deleting the waste you're complaining about.

[James]

[color=#707875]The point is that we shouldn't be getting spam in the first place.

I know that I don't want to spend five or ten minutes deleting 150 spam messages, just so that I can then get through to a handful of legitimate emails. It wastes my time and it wastes the time of the person who is sending mail to me in the first place.[/color]

[Semjaza]

Let's not mention the the irony in complaining about people who complain, though. Spending another two minutes to do that is more justifiable, obviously.

The issue is that it's unsolicited. You're not supposed to be getting it in the first place, as James said. Also, when I was on AOL years back I used to get so much spam that there wasn't even ROOM for the legitimate e-mail I actually needed sometimes. It's obviously a problem or government agencies wouldn't be getting involved.

[amibasuki]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Semjaza Azazel [/i]
[B]A law was recently passed (as in the past week) that makes unsolicited e-mails basically illegal. I forget the site exactly, but you forward those e-mails to them and they are added to their list of people to go after. It's some government site.

I guess this should take care of a lot of the spam I get. I get very little, but what I do get doesn't let me unsubscribe. The link doesn't work or if you try to reply it tells you the e-mail doesn't exist, etc. [/B][/QUOTE]
[FONT=arial]heh, you're not supposed to click on any unsubscribe link or such of the like in spam, because that just verifies that you saw and read the mail to the person making it. they'll just keep sending you even more stuff.

speaking of that anti-spam law, a couple of weeks ago I would get at least 20 spams daily (and hoards more if I don't check it for days at a time). then when that law came out and they were talking about how this big-time spammer got arrested for sending substantial amounts of it, I notice I all of a sudden have about a fourth of that. today I checked my mail, and I had 6 letters in my Junk Box, and two of them were for things I had signed up for myself. this is much to my liking. *heavens part and ray of light shines on self*[/FONT]

[Guest Bloodsin]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Semjaza Azazel [/i]
[B]Let's not mention the the irony in complaining about people who complain, though. Spending another two minutes to do that is more justifiable, obviously. [/B][/QUOTE]
Not nearly as ironic as something that's useless having its own thread in a nom-useless zone.

Spam's not that hard to deal with.
Just reply to them with death threats.

[Charles]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Bloodsin [/i]
[B]Not nearly as ironic as something that's useless having its own thread in a nom-useless zone.

Spam's not that hard to deal with.
Just reply to them with death threats. [/B][/QUOTE]

Phew. And [i]that[/i] is the most satisfying two [i]seconds[/i] I've ever had. Merry Christmas BS! ^_^;;

Anyway, my greatest trouble came with AOL. My email account was constantly flooded with spam of all kinds. The mail control options were only temporary solutions. Somehow, spammers were able to bypass them quite easily. In the end, I was so discouraged, I simply stopped checking my mail. It was too bothersome to sort through all the junk. Some of them were quite cleverly labeled too. They would title them as if you knew them. After a while it was easy to spot, but when I first started using the Internet, it fooled me.

It's not such a problem anymore though. I'm very careful about spreading my email address around.

[G/S/B Master]

Lol. thats why hotmail is for. My spam consist of hentai, porn and many others you don't wanna know.

I just delete everything that goes in my junk mail, if someone is going to give me something through e-mail (dunno why though, use AIM), they give me they're e-mail, add it to my save list, and the mail doesn't go through the junk box where I delete everything. I wish I had MSN as my internet server :(, damn AOL.

[Semjaza]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Charles [/i]
[B]Phew. And [i]that[/i] is the most satisfying two [i]seconds[/i] I've ever had. Merry Christmas BS! ^_^;; [/B][/QUOTE]

Thank you. Now it truly is a forum for non-useless things. (zing! heh)

I still cannot figure out what point he was trying to make by that post, but what else is new. I guess his usual misspellings didn't help matters either. I think I was supposed to act hurt and bow before his intelligence.

Someone else mentioned SBC Yahoo, I believe. The bulk folder is quite useful as it receives all e-mail that is known to be from possible spam source. You can view it if you log on through Yahoo, but it doesn't download with normal mail programs.

Only problem with this is that an order confirmation I was waiting for from Best Buy's site was kept in the Bulk folder.

[Mr Highlight]

I heard they might do something like the 'do not call' list but 'do not spam' list. haven't heard much about it lately.

[DeadSeraphim]

I'm subscribed to some Yahoo! Groups and it's a pain-in-the-*** when an email from one of my groups shoots straight to my Junk Mail box, thought to be SPAM because Microsoft is Pig-Headed... With Hotmail you have the option of blocking an email address but SPAM comes in on so many different addresses that it usually does screw all.