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http://www.easywhois.com/
Now,
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11-18-2006, 01:35 PM #1
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Email addresses check this out
Ok, i use this website to find out where "Spam" email comes from
http://www.easywhois.com/
Now, if anyone uses it how the heck do you get off someones account besides using filtering? all of a sudden I got spam emails with thunderbird and I have the stuff sent to my junk mail box but it still is a pain
any suggestions about what to do when you know the address of the originator of the email?
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11-18-2006, 01:38 PM #2
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Not much you can do really, it's mostly done by spam bots. Ie. Compromised Windows machines sending out mass spam. there is no central place you can block.
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11-18-2006, 01:41 PM #3
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thanks lorian, i never get hit with my thunderbird but somehow the other day it happened, i guess the only thing to do is change email addresses
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11-18-2006, 01:43 PM #4
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Never click any links, or load any images in spam. If you do you will be bombarded with it.
I find Gmail's spam filter very good, not much get past the spam filter and into my inbox. I currently have over 1200 spam messages in my spam box.|TG| Lorian
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11-18-2006, 03:24 PM #5
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My ISP uses Hotmail and it catches all this crap. I just empty it out every so often and report. It continually gets less and less.
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11-19-2006, 03:46 AM #6
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I report all my spam to www.SpamCop.net
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11-24-2006, 04:38 PM #7
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The worst thing you can do is click Remove links in spam. That just verifies your address, which then gets passed around to even more spammers.
A lot of spam is sourced by Russian mobsters running botnets of thousands of compromised machines. Good luck doing anything proactive about those.
A good ISP will have SpamAssassin somewhere in its system to mark and score spam. It looks at lots of features of a message and assigns a spamminess score to each feature. You can then decide at what threshold to toss a message in the trashcan. The default scores are designed to put the threshold at 5. I outright reject all messages scoring more than 10 at my mail server, and anything between 5 and 10 goes in a probabably-spam folder, sorted by score.
http://spamassassin.org/Dude, seriously, WHAT handkerchief?
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