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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:16 am Post subject: my spam filter is useless.

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Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

That's it Lourdes Mcclendon is going to be my new psuedonymn.

"Solid own whats vex" is pretty good.
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:48 am Post subject:

that's not bad.

mine is "enma daioh".
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:17 am Post subject:

I got the exact same e-mails in every single one of my accounts. They must be trying a new spam system of sending one to every possible bitstring in the living world.

-Wes
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friedchicken · . Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 496 Location: Port Land, OR

Spam can be funny stuff. At my last work we had a secure email server for one of our customers that filtered the spam after it got to the server and funnelled it into a separate directory, where we would occasionally read it just for laughs.

My Yahoo mail account has worthless spam filters. Half of the time mail I actually want ends up in spam, despite Yahoo's useless 'not spam' marker that you can apply to messages that end up in spam unintentionally.

OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

The first time I got email from here on my Hotmail account it got filtered as spam.

FortNinety · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:12 pm Post subject:

I've recently begun to get the same series of spam, the ones where its the first name of the sends, with the Wink

at the end in the title. Though the difference for me is that its famous people. I even got one from Ayn Rand, which I have to assume would get a kick out of.

My attitude is that its totally useless to fight it. Maybe that's a poor attitude to have. But precisely how are you fighting spam dess? Is it a plug-in for your email client (and in which case, what do you use?) or something on the server side?

I guess I could be pro-active when it comes to fending off spam, but... I'm just afraid of loosing legit email. Silly concern maybe. But the other day, my mini comics agent said that the title of one of my emails was so formal, it got caught my his filter for sounding "too official".

Maybe that's why I don't get too many response from various other folks who work in corporate?

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

dessgeega · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:46 am Post subject:

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:19 am Post subject:

this event involves riders and cattle.
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Mister Toups · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:56 am Post subject:

Did anyone else read "steven dickens" as "seven dicks"?
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dongle · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 290

Toups you are awesome

Hot Stott Bot · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 366 Location: Boston

Lately, a mailing list where I receive a lot of party invitations usually of the slightly-insane kind has been getting spam, and I keep thinking it is a party invitation and clicking it!

I mean seriously...

"This time we follow King Arthur and his knights in their search for the Holy Grail."

...totally looked like a party invitation!

What am I supposed to do?

OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

Sounds like MySpace. I keep getting random party and group invites from people who think I really, really need to meet hot singles in my area now.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:45 pm Post subject:

Ging · . Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 12

This website is fairly relevent guys. http://spamusement.com/

extralife · . Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 233

I'm writing a short story that's sort of about spam

oh god it sucks

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:02 am Post subject:

my blog gets amazing spam.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:27 am Post subject:

the squirrelmail setup on dreamhost seems to have at least two options for their spam filter, which includes whitelisting, unless i read that incorrectly. i'll know more in a few weeks when the spiders start their spider-ing.
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Mister Toups · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject:

I've been getting similarly named spambots on my forum. They're at least easy enough to identify.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Mister Toups · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

My gmail gets tons of spam but I see like .0001%. Have I just gotten lucky or something?
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duomo · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 25

Toups, my gmail is like that as well. Maybe 1 or 2 spam messages get through the filter in a week.

the drunken samurai · . Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 30

gmail = no spam + awesome

simple as that

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I get some spam in my more published gmail account that slips through the filter. It seems to come and go. I also get a lot more false positives in that account too.

I used to get a lot in my yahoo account but recently I've noticed a steep decline to the point of virtually no spam and no false positives.
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