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Re: New e-mail address for Frank Filz
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lugnet.people
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Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:01:36 GMT
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ffilz-lists@STOPSPAMMERSmindspring.com
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Tim Courtney wrote:
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> In lugnet.people, Dave Schuler wrote:
> > In lugnet.people, Frank Filz wrote:
> >
> > > Started Friday. There was a blast a couple weeks ago also, but that
> > > seemed concentrated on a single address so Earthlink's e-mail block
> > > worked. Earthlink has been singularly unresponsive to the issue. They
> > > keep telling me I can put my account on the highest level of spam
> > > blocking, where suspect e-mail goes into a special folder, and still
> > > uses mail quota. Gee, what a solution...
> > >
> > > At this point, I'd love to be able to shut off receiving attachments.
> > > Anyone who legitimately needs to send me an attachment can find a place
> > > to upload it to for me (like a Yahoo group).
> >
> > For what it's worth, I've beeen inundated by ~174K emails for the past few days,
> > too. I've never has so many options for the new "M$ Security Patch" or the
> > latest male enhancement product. I wonder what kicked off the flood?
> >
> > I wish I could set a filter to block any emails (or attachments) larger than,
> > say, 50K (or whatever size I choose). Of course, since I'm on a free email
> > server, I guess I get what I pay for.
>
> The same here ... I've been getting these messages as well. Over 200 in the last
> 12hrs. I'm on a DSL, but its still taxing - it takes about 10 mins to download
> my mail in the mornings. I've turned off the chime in outlook too, because there
> are probably 10 false alarms to every good email that comes in.
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> I want to change addresses, but I have a couple Ebay auctions running with this
> address. And, they are my first. I want them to go smoothly - does anyone have
> recommendations for this?
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> I'm concsidering having my admin (a friend) set an autoresponder for my new
> address (with appropriate anti-harvesting measures), but allowing ebay generated
> mail to pass through. Does anyone see any problems with that, or have other
> ideas?
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> I'd like to start afresh on LUGNET with a new address that is covered under the
> spam filter from the get-go.
I've been using Earthlink's web mail to clear out the crud before trying
to download e-mail. My new e-mail so far is staying clean.
I am palnning on trying to keep the new address of the web. Of course
one problem is that some of the viruses scarf addys out of people's
address books. There's no protection there. I did a google search for
+ffilz +mindspring just to find out where my e-mail addy was. To my
horror, I just found my church has posted phone numbers and e-mail addys
of every Sunday school teacher. I've reccomended they remove that
document from the web. I don't mind my name being public on the web, and
I know you can get my phone number pretty trivially, but I do mind
having my phone number posted with something that gives context (and I
bet there's some folks with unlisted numbers that would be horrified to
find this document posted).
Frank
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 | | Re: New e-mail address for Frank Filz
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| (...) Interesting approach. I use Outlook and Cloudmark SpamNet ((URL) to filter spam. It does a pretty good job, getting about 95% of offending messages that come in. But, when I have to download hundreds of spam messages at a time, its still a (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.people)
| | | Re: New e-mail address for Frank Filz
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| (...) I have SquirrelMail webmail and the worm load is causing it to not function at all sometimes. Another tool is in Eudora (I have 5.1, 6 is much newer.) Eudora can be set to not download messages over a certain size so that only the first few (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: New e-mail address for Frank Filz
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| (...) The same here ... I've been getting these messages as well. Over 200 in the last 12hrs. I'm on a DSL, but its still taxing - it takes about 10 mins to download my mail in the mornings. I've turned off the chime in outlook too, because there (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.people)
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