[TCARC-NTX] Spam on QTH/QSL net servers

Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:37:26 -0600

There's also spam killer software available such as from McAfee....

David Johnson
Just Call David Computer Services
(817)444-6163
[email protected]
http://www.justcalldavid.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "terry" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TCARC-NTX] Spam on QTH/QSL net servers

> Joan M Bartay wrote:
> 
> >I am getting about 80 a day on Flash.Net (Yahoo now) and about 60 a day
> >on Juno.  Does anyone know how to get rid of it?
> >Joan Melton Bartay  N5MRJ
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> There are several things you can do, depending on what your *willing* to 
> do.
> 
> If you're using the latest version of Outlook or Outlook  Express to 
> download your primary email account, you can set rules to filter and 
> delete messages with certain known characteristics in spam emails, 
> mainly keywords in the subject lines.    
> 
> You can change your ISP to one that uses spam filtering, like: 
>  http://www.ctelcom.net
> 
> As far as the third party email accounts, I don't know other than just 
> to abandon them to fill up and return to sender for a while, or just 
> abandon them altogether for new ones.  
> 
> Many start new accounts, do all of the above,  and even go a step 
> further and mask the return address.  They'll insert something like 
> [email protected] as the return address instead of the real address and 
> list reply instructions in the signature file, something like:
> --
> To reply, change NoSpam to jmbartay
> ([email protected]@flash.net)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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