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thewizard

The best thing to do is have two email accounts, one for personal emails ie. Freinds family the other is to use for signing up for things online I just use hotmail for signing up for stuff and an email address supplied by my ISP to email friends and family.
Simple

penrhyn

Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife: I don't like spam!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?

Sorry folks couldn't resist the temptation.

jennivallins

I've been getting bounce messages that make it look like someone has used my email address (or addresses at my domain) to send spam. So the address is real, but I haven't been sending them, so hopefully no one will report me!

I too find that I get almost no spam now as google filters brilliantly. In the spam folder there is usually about 700 items (deleted every thirty days) but I don't even have to check them anymore, it is always spot on.

I'm trying to find a solution to spam for work. We have exchange server, but not all our emails come through it at the mo, so we need something on each machine. I am trialling spamfighter, but at £17 each it isn't going to work our that cheap. Anyone get any others they would recommend that are cheaper / better?

Jenni

cwoodham

jennivallins wrote:

I've been getting bounce messages that make it look like someone has used my email address (or addresses at my domain) to send spam. So the address is real, but I haven't been sending them, so hopefully no one will report me!

The spammers take real email addresses like yours and put them in the FROM field of their emails to hide their identity. Occasionally they modify it with random characters before your domain name, e.g. [EMAIL="shcstw@yourdomainname.com"]shcstw@yourdomainname.com[/EMAIL]. That way if someone bounces the spam it doesnt go back to them.
It just goes to prove that bouncing spam is a complete waste of time.

wolfman

cheesy.mike wrote:

Your last name isn't Canute is it? You would be better standing on the beach and telling the tide not to come in than try to stop spam by reporting people to their hosting companies. While it may make you feel better it is a fruitless effort.

Maybe not as far as reporting is concerned, but reverse dns is a very effective method of determining spam, which most anti spam software will use.

jennivallins wrote:

I've been getting bounce messages that make it look like someone has used my email address (or addresses at my domain) to send spam. So the address is real, but I haven't been sending them, so hopefully no one will report me!

The only thing to worry about is getting blacklisted, or having the reputation of your domain damaged. If anyone does report you, they'll need proof, ie an email. Within the email it'll show it's from your domain, but the email headers will say otherwise (as it's sent from somewhere else).