RE: [CH] OT - more spam lately?

Dan Turkette (dan@tekinteractive.com)
Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:03:29 -0500 

Mailwasher is a great program, with one exception. You won't get many email
confirmations of the orders you placed online, because the Web site cannot
respond to them. We get those quite a bit at the spice company and have to
take the time to respond to them by hand, but I doubt the Amazon's of the
world have the staff or the time to do respond to them.

Dan
www.americanspice.com

-----Original Message-----
From: AndyB [mailto:quark@erols.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 11:31 AM
To: Alex Silbajoris
Cc: chile-heads@globalgarden.com
Subject: Re: [CH] OT - more spam lately?

Alex & others,

I have been using Mailwasher for some time.  It "bounces" SPAM back into the
face of the sender. I get to define what is SPAM and/or friends - by use of
filters, blacklists and whitelists.  

It works by going out to my mail, pre-filtering and returning the results
for my inspection (and possible override and/or criteria modification).
Then it will bounce and delete what I consider to be SPAM. I then use my
favorite mail reader as normal.

After a few months of use, I've noticed a sharp decrease in the amount of
incident SPAM. Now, I typically only get 2-3 a day!

Mailwasher is freeware:  http://www.mailwasher.net

AndyB

Alex Silbajoris wrote:
> 
> Just wondering if anyone else here is getting this - in the last week,
I've
> been receiving at least 20 spams per day offering drunk nasty college
girls,
> etc.
> 
> It makes me wonder if they got my address here, and if other list members
> have seen a similar sudden recent increase.
> 
> It also makes me want to set up a fake site.  Imagine something like I GOT
> DRUNK AND JUST SET UP MY NEW WEB CAM - so you go there and find a blurry
> shot of the back of someone's computer, like they set it up facing the
wrong
> way...
> 
> - A
> 
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