Suggestion needed regarding spam

[Animesh Maurya]

Hi everybody

Iam sorry to post this odd topic. Iam in need of some suggestion to
protect my mail id from spam mail.

My mail box fill up in a day or two with those junk mails.

So I tried to change my mail id associated with the NG account with a
fake one.

But unfortunately it is not taking effect.
I don't really understand what is going wrong or Iam going the dark
way.

Thanks to all

 

[Impmon]

On 14 Sep 2003 22:29:53 -0700, animesh_m@yahoo.com (Animesh Maurya)
typed:

But unfortunately it is not taking effect.
I don't really understand what is going wrong or Iam going the dark
way.

Some spammers retain email addresses for a long time. And some free
email services like Yahoo is spam magnet.
--
All viruses and spams are automatically removed by my ISP before
reaching my inbox.

 

[Bob Masta]

On 14 Sep 2003 22:29:53 -0700, animesh_m@yahoo.com (Animesh Maurya)
wrote:

Hi everybody

Iam sorry to post this odd topic. Iam in need of some suggestion to
protect my mail id from spam mail.

My mail box fill up in a day or two with those junk mails.

So I tried to change my mail id associated with the NG account with a
fake one.

But unfortunately it is not taking effect.
I don't really understand what is going wrong or Iam going the dark
way.

Thanks to all

Many of us use a bogus address for the header, and put our
real addresses in "munged" form as part of the signature line
at the end of the post. The idea is that most spammers get
your address from robot harvesters that scan for classical-looking
address text, of the form "myname@somewhere.com". So you
want to make it so a real human can decipher it, but not a simple
machine algorithm.


Bob Masta
dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom

D A Q A R T A
Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis
Shareware from Interstellar Research
www.daqarta.com

 

[Joe]

"Animesh Maurya" <animesh_m@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:58eab14a.0309142129.43700141@posting.google.com...

Hi everybody

Iam sorry to post this odd topic. Iam in need of some suggestion to
protect my mail id from spam mail.

My mail box fill up in a day or two with those junk mails.

So I tried to change my mail id associated with the NG account with a
fake one.

But unfortunately it is not taking effect.
I don't really understand what is going wrong or Iam going the dark
way.

Thanks to all

I use a program called mailwasher pro which shows you the what's and where's
of your emails BEFORE you download them. Then, if there are some you
recognize as spam, you can bounce them back to the sender.
Try visiting www.firetrust.com

You can download the free version and, if you like it, you can register it
for US$29.95. I have been running it for about 2 years now (earlier
versions) and it has decreased the number of spams i get drastically.

I am not commercially affiliated with firetrust or mailwasher, i am just a
satisfied customer.

hth,
Joe

 

[Animesh Maurya]

"Joe" <nuisancewildlife@nospamearthlink.net> wrote in message news:<IUm9b.17813$Aq2.15836@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>...

"Animesh Maurya" <animesh_m@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:58eab14a.0309142129.43700141@posting.google.com...
Hi everybody

Iam sorry to post this odd topic. Iam in need of some suggestion to
protect my mail id from spam mail.

My mail box fill up in a day or two with those junk mails.

So I tried to change my mail id associated with the NG account with a
fake one.

But unfortunately it is not taking effect.
I don't really understand what is going wrong or Iam going the dark
way.

Thanks to all

Do Mailwasher works on web based mail server ?

Animesh Maurya

I use a program called mailwasher pro which shows you the what's and where's
of your emails BEFORE you download them. Then, if there are some you
recognize as spam, you can bounce them back to the sender.
Try visiting www.firetrust.com

You can download the free version and, if you like it, you can register it
for US$29.95. I have been running it for about 2 years now (earlier
versions) and it has decreased the number of spams i get drastically.

I am not commercially affiliated with firetrust or mailwasher, i am just a
satisfied customer.

hth,
Joe

 

[JeffM]

Paul Graham is the guy on the cutting edge of spam filtering.
A.PlanForSpam
FiltersThatFightBack
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+site%3Awww.paulgraham.com+spam+fight-back+bayesian&btnG=Google+Search

Another take on the problem
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,24330,3401716,00.html

Here's a real-world cutting-edge solution
WinningTheWarOnSpam--ComparisonOfBayesianSpamFilters_KristianEide
http://home.dataparty.no/kristian/reviews/bayesian/

 

[Joe]

"Animesh Maurya" <animesh_m@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:58eab14a.0309152343.3bf6382e@posting.google.com...

Do Mailwasher works on web based mail server ?

Animesh Maurya

I dont know, I have a pop server, but there is an email addy on the web site
to contact them and ask them. They usually respond within 24 hrs.

Joe

 

[Animesh Maurya]

no_spam@aol.com (Bob Masta) wrote in message news:<3f65b36b.2877802@news.itd.umich.edu>...

On 14 Sep 2003 22:29:53 -0700, animesh_m@yahoo.com (Animesh Maurya)
wrote:

My question is for all those who have changed there email id with a
fake one.

Google sends a verification mail to that fake id and you have to visit
the confirmation url for the effect to take place.

If you are placing a fake id that mail will bounce back, so it will be
useless.
But many people the doing the same.

How it is done?

Animesh Maurya

Hi everybody

Iam sorry to post this odd topic. Iam in need of some suggestion to
protect my mail id from spam mail.

My mail box fill up in a day or two with those junk mails.

So I tried to change my mail id associated with the NG account with a
fake one.

But unfortunately it is not taking effect.
I don't really understand what is going wrong or Iam going the dark
way.

Thanks to all

Many of us use a bogus address for the header, and put our
real addresses in "munged" form as part of the signature line
at the end of the post. The idea is that most spammers get
your address from robot harvesters that scan for classical-looking
address text, of the form "myname@somewhere.com". So you
want to make it so a real human can decipher it, but not a simple
machine algorithm.


Bob Masta
dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom

D A Q A R T A
Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis
Shareware from Interstellar Research
www.daqarta.com

 

[Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun]

In article <58eab14a.0309142129.43700141@posting.google.com>,
animesh_m@yahoo.com mentioned...

Hi everybody

Iam sorry to post this odd topic. Iam in need of some suggestion to
protect my mail id from spam mail.

You're asking questions that should be asked in the
news.admin.net-abuse.email newsgroup. Forget the answwers here.
Also, ask your provider.

My mail box fill up in a day or two with those junk mails.

So I tried to change my mail id associated with the NG account with a
fake one.

But unfortunately it is not taking effect.
I don't really understand what is going wrong or Iam going the dark
way.

Thanks to all

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[Mark Fergerson]

Animesh Maurya wrote:

Hi everybody

Iam sorry to post this odd topic. Iam in need of some suggestion to
protect my mail id from spam mail.

My mail box fill up in a day or two with those junk mails.

So I tried to change my mail id associated with the NG account with a
fake one.

But unfortunately it is not taking effect.

Changing the _displayed_ email address just means you'll
get no new attacks through that addy (if it's bogus), but
you'll continue to get them because you haven't changed your
true email address.

I don't really understand what is going wrong or Iam going the dark
way.

Thanks to all

OK, I just changed the way my email address appears (I hope).

Let's see if this works.

Mark L. "gee, I wish I'd done this sooner" Fergerson

 

[Mark Fergerson]

Mark Fergerson wrote:

OK, I just changed the way my email address appears (I hope).

Let's see if this works.

D'oh!

OK, one more try.

Mark L. "gee, I wish I had a clue" Fergerson

 

[Michael Black]

Mark Fergerson <mfergerson1@cox.net> wrote in message news:<3F6FFB87.50407@cox.net>...

Animesh Maurya wrote:
Hi everybody

Iam sorry to post this odd topic. Iam in need of some suggestion to
protect my mail id from spam mail.

My mail box fill up in a day or two with those junk mails.

So I tried to change my mail id associated with the NG account with a
fake one.

But unfortunately it is not taking effect.

Changing the _displayed_ email address just means you'll
get no new attacks through that addy (if it's bogus), but
you'll continue to get them because you haven't changed your
true email address.

I once got some spam that had the addressees in the clear.

Next to my email address was the one I had right before it,
both user names were the same with only the domain changing.
The first address had only been valid for four months (the
"freenet" lived only that long), and was at least six years
in the past when I got the spam.

It's good to see testing where someone actually puts content
in the message.

Michael

 

[Mark Fergerson]

Michael Black wrote:

<snip>

It's good to see testing where someone actually puts content
in the message.

I just followed good examples. Besides, what I was
testing was not only relevant to the OP, but I wanted to
_set_ an example. Finally, I got it right.

Mark L. Fergerson