spam

[kbrookins]

i keep getting sex spam emails and even yahoo has a way
to report these types of things my microsost mail box is
my family box and i have an 11 year old son i need to
know how to protect him from these types of emails please
if anyone knows a way i can report this or stop it please
email me at (e-mail address removed) in subject line just put
spam

thank you so very much

 

[Papa]

Then stop using your real email address in newsgroup posts. That just
invites spam.

 

[none]

You just doubled you spam by posting your e-mail address. Spam is
unstoppable, the very best you can do is minimize it.

do not post your e-mail address anywhere (you can mange it, example:
john.doe{remove}@isp.com)
change your e-mail address - and protect it like you would your cell phone
number
Make sure you PC is free of viruses, spyware and adware.
Use spam filters - it may pickup 30% to 60% of the spam.

Use Google and search the news groups for good spam, adware and spyware
programs.

 

[E McCann]

They're going to get through, even with all the filtering. There are things
you can do, 'til someone has a better solution:

1. For posts like this, registering on websites, etc. use a throwaway
address (free ones, like the ones from Hotmail.) Check in on it if you're
expecting a message there, for instance, or just often enough to keep it
"active" (and empty it out,) but otherwise leave it alone.

2. DON'T use your real email address on newsgroups (like here,) registration
for websites or servers, etc. If you have a website, don't use it there,
either (if you can use a form on it, that's better.) Newsgroups and websites
get hit by "email harvesters" who grab anything that looks like a legitimate
email address, then sells the list to spammers.

3. Keep an email address *private* (give it only to friends and family, and
tell them NOT to use it if they want to sign you up for anything) - again,
there are free ones out there that aren't big names. Check for "Free email"
(or go to http://www.lowendmac.com and look for the articles on "Free POP
servers.")

For instance, I have a couple of websites, with Hotmail accounts added to
them. One of them has slowed down some, since it only has 75 spam messages
in its inbox in the last few days. My "public" Hotmail account gets perhaps
25 spam messages every 2-3 days (I use that for sites like this, for
websites, etc.- Both of these have filtering turned on, or they'd be worse.)
My private email gets maybe 1-2 spam messages a week.

 

[Guest]

lol. Posting your real e-mail address to newsgroups will definitely help to clear your mailbox.

http://spam.abuse.net/
http://spam.org/

Good Luck!

P.S. Make an extra mailbox for your kid.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take
to minimize it's impact:

1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your
reply address, for example: "(e-mail address removed)."

2) Never, ever reply to any spam you receive, even to "unsubscribe"
or "remove" yourself from the spammers' address lists; you'll only
compound the problem. If spammers had any intention of honoring the
your desire not to receive spam, they wouldn't have become spammers in
the first place. When you reply to a spammer, all you're doing is
confirming that he/she has a valid, marketable email address.

3) Be especially leery of any offers from websites for free software,
services, information, etc, that require your email address, or that
require your email address so you can "login" to access the offered
service and/or information. Many such sites are supplementing their
income by collecting addresses to sell to the spammers. (Of course,
not all such sites have under-handed motives; it's a judgment call.
If the offer seems "too good to be true," it's most likely a scam.)

4) DO forward any and all spam, with complete headers, to the
originating ISP with a complaint. Not all ISPs will make an effort to
shut down the spammers, but many will. One tool that makes forwarding
such complaints fairly simple is SpamCop (http://spamcop.net).

4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net).
This utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it
from the server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future
emails from them will be automatically deleted from the server.

5) Within Outlook Express, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders
list, so the their messages are automatically deleted from the server
without being downloaded to your PC.


Bruce Chambers
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having both at once. - RAH

 

[Jim Macklin]

Sit him down and have that "talk" you've been putting off.
He will certainly tell you all about sex. Your job is to
tell him about morals and decency.

Get a spam filter.


--
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.


"(e-mail address removed)" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
| i keep getting sex spam emails and even yahoo has a way
| to report these types of things my microsost mail box is
| my family box and i have an 11 year old son i need to
| know how to protect him from these types of emails please
| if anyone knows a way i can report this or stop it please
| email me at (e-mail address removed) in subject line just put
| spam
|
| thank you so very much

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

You just doubled you spam by posting your e-mail address. Spam is
unstoppable, the very best you can do is minimize it.

do not post your e-mail address anywhere (you can mange it, example:
john.doe{remove}@isp.com)
change your e-mail address - and protect it like you would your cell
phone number
Make sure you PC is free of viruses, spyware and adware.
Use spam filters - it may pickup 30% to 60% of the spam.

Use Google and search the news groups for good spam, adware and
spyware programs.

Looks like you need to learn how to correctly munge an address. The
delimiter goes /after/ the '@' *NOT* before. There is little point in
putting it before because the domain is still valid. The spam might not
filter through to your inbox, but it will still end up at your ISP and they
won't be too happy about it (and my even terminate your account if they
determine that you're the source).

 

[none]

I could care less.

Looks like you need to learn how to correctly munge an address. The
delimiter goes /after/ the '@' *NOT* before. There is little point in
putting it before because the domain is still valid. The spam might not
filter through to your inbox, but it will still end up at your ISP and they
won't be too happy about it (and my even terminate your account if they
determine that you're the source).