spam is getting worse

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XxXchangingsoulXxX

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i'm sure you guys heard that in the US we've got a law now that "requires the senders of unsolicited advertising e-mail to provide a link by which the recipient can opt out."

the problem is, the text makes no reference to the two following criteria:

1) moments after your name is deleted, it's ok for them to re-add you
2) the 'remove me' link doesn't have to actually work.

has anyone else become the target of such crap?
 
NO, becuase I use severall different email addys...all spy like and shit. I have on for biz, one for family, one for fucking around on forums, and One for registering at stupid ass websites for information so that they can spam my ass. So on the last on I just delete everything.
 
i do the same thing, but the problem is i rely too heavily on my own; it's my first name at my last name dot org, so it's really convenient. problem is, you post it once on a forum or someone links to it, and suddenly eight billion people a day are sending you netsky.

i should start using my gmail account, or the accounts bound to other domains i own. it's kinda like a snowball, though; i'd have to disable my primary account until all the spammers gave up on it.
 
Well have the time you cant do shit about it cause its comming from like india, or some where else and america cant do shit about that. In american spam :) you have to allow people to unsubscribe but like I said if its comming from outside of america they can get around that.
 
absolutely true.

but there's a microsoft style solution i really don't like: ban certain IPs from your forwarding service.

now, you don't need to know the particulars about e-mail, other than this really simple breakdown:

1) mail starts at the recipient's computer
2) they click 'send' which puts it on their own SMTP mail-forwarding server.
3) it gets relayed to the recipient's mail server
4) recipient checks their mail (POP3 or IMAP are the commonly used protocols these days) and get the sender's message.

one bad fix people have implemented is to be discriminating about where the mail comes from in step 2.

my server has received messages saying "relaying denied; you are a dynamic IP" even though it's not on a dynamic IP. essentially, people are keeping lists of internet addresses that should be denied relaying, which makes it very hard to run a standard, fully compliant mail server, dependin on where you are and how your network operates.

bah, point being, mail filtering needs to happen at steps 1 and 4, not at steps 2 and 3. servers should not intrude on the mail sending and receiving process, in my opinion.

~ dan ~
 
I mean, if I stay away from the internet for a week, then I return to check my emails, I'll have something like 15 emails, but I'll have 20 spam, its fucking unbelievable.
 
Back when Hotmail was an absolute dick, I'd get at least 60 spams per day. Most of them consisted of bras and sillicon implants.

Thinking a little, I made a new Hotmail account and put myself down as female. I was sent ads for penis enlargement.

The worst in all that is that spammers will constantly find a way around the law. Just the opt out thing. It's always a trap. If you click that, it confirms to them that someone really is using your E-Mail, and then the flood begins. One of my friends was wondering why his spam was increasing exponentially even though he systematically opted out of everything. I only answered: "0wned..."
 
DEATH TO SPAMMERS!!!
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