ATTENTION: Contact eMail changes

Post by **LMan** » 08/11/2004 - 11:58

Hi all,

due to too much spam entering my mailbox, following eMail adresses will no longer be working:

info@remix64.com
lman@remix64.com
remix64@phatsites.de
remix64.admin@phatsites.de

Please contact us via the main site's contact form.

Thank you for understanding,

- Markus

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » 08/11/2004 - 14:40

why not just use filters like i do.... 99% of my 1200 messages every day are spam, only around 10 get thru, and theyre easily deleted... OE is ace with filters, but there are better progs to handle it.

Perhaps if anyone else here uses filters, they should post whats they use, and perhaps build up a general databank we can all use ?

Post by **LMan** » 08/11/2004 - 17:53

Hey Matrix,

Mozilla Mail / Thunderbird does pretty fair junk mail filtering (I'd say it recognises about 99% of my junk), still I just hate the whole concept of receiving about 9 spam mails for every "real" mail. Spam is the #1 plague in the web these days if you ask me...

- Markus

tom · Post by **tom** » 08/11/2004 - 18:31

LMan / Remix64 wrote:Spam is the #1 plague in the web these days if you ask me...
- Markus

yeah, it really is ....

Post by **tas** » 08/11/2004 - 21:47

they are just getting craftier and craftier.. i've noticed many more of these spams getting through the filters too these last few weeks.

Jan Lund Thomsen · Post by **Jan Lund Thomsen** » 09/11/2004 - 9:29

LMan / Remix64 wrote:Mozilla Mail / Thunderbird does pretty fair junk mail filtering (I'd say it recognises about 99% of my junk), still I just hate the whole concept of receiving about 9 spam mails for every "real" mail.

I've got SpamAssassin set up on the box that handles my mail, so I never get to download the stuff. Whenever something does make it through the filter I just move it from the ham folder into the spam one and issue a simple "sa-learn --ham --mbox mail/HAM; sa-learn --spam --mbox mail/SPAM" to update it. Great for getting rid of virus as well.

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 09/11/2004 - 10:31

I use a subscription service called "Cloudmark": it costs about Ã‚Â£1.50 per month, but it's really effective. I get about 1000 spams a day, and I only see 1% of them.

(the others get put into my "deleted items" folder, but I could just as well have them deleted from the server)..

Vosla · Post by **Vosla** » 09/11/2004 - 15:58

Well, spamfilters are cool but somebody should tell people how to configure them properly. There are a lot of people who want a response from me and their mail get axed and mine sometimes, too.
I forward my incoming mails through several accounts, each with a different ruleset. What is still left in my front-account could be happily erased after a quick look at the topic.

Waz · Post by **Waz** » 10/11/2004 - 8:51

Or try something else Jan suggested to me: K9. It's free, it's a doddle to set up, and also allows you to check IP addresses of mails sent against RBL blacklists, which tend to flag spam pretty quickly.

http://keir.net/k9.html

I use that at home and my mailbox is nice and spam-free (and I configured it to work in conjunction with Thunderbird 0.9 no problem). It's well worth a look. My friend was getting 300-400 spams a day until he started using that, now he can read mails with confidence again. In his words: "this f***ing rocks!"

Post by **LMan** » 10/11/2004 - 9:39

Since changing/deleting the eMail addresses, I don't need any spam filter at all - for now. What a relief. eMail addies are the spammer's currency. My philosophy is to remove this currency from them.

I know this won't make any difference, still it's a matter of principle : )

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » 10/11/2004 - 21:55

Yeah, till the new emails get harvested by keniving web-bots. Waz's plan looks good, though ive found that if i locate the source of a spam message, i can use OE's filter to forward any spam blocked right back at em

- Thats gotta be annoying as crazy huh lol....

Jan Lund Thomsen · Post by **Jan Lund Thomsen** » 11/11/2004 - 9:56

Matrix wrote:though ive found that if i locate the source of a spam message, i can use OE's filter to forward any spam blocked right back at em - Thats gotta be annoying as crazy huh lol....

While forwarding the stuff back at the spammer might make you feel better it also makes you part of the problem rather than the solution.

Spam is taking up more and more bandwidth.

Post by **LMan** » 11/11/2004 - 10:00

Matrix wrote:Yeah, till the new emails get harvested by keniving web-bots.

Well spotted, and that is exactly the reason why we have those nice contact forms where you can send people eMails without ever knowing their eMail address.

Post by **tas** » 30/11/2004 - 22:07

Jan Lund Thomsen wrote:
Matrix wrote:though ive found that if i locate the source of a spam message, i can use OE's filter to forward any spam blocked right back at em - Thats gotta be annoying as crazy huh lol....
While forwarding the stuff back at the spammer might make you feel better it also makes you part of the problem rather than the solution.

Spam is taking up more and more bandwidth.

Plus it proves your e-mail is legit, and it'll give them the research they need to overcome potential blocking measures.

xo · Post by xo » 05/12/2004 - 21:48

Matrix wrote:Yeah, till the new emails get harvested by keniving web-bots.

Try harvesting a distorted image of an email address. Of course that's my no means a perfect solution. The email can still be harvested by other means elsewhere. I saw soneone using two email addresses everywhere, one for regular mail and one for spam mail. Presumably if a mail went through to the spam address it would be deleted from the non-spam account. BillG claims we'll be over the spam problem soon though, so stay tuned.

I heard of one solution where in order to send a mail the client had to solve a puzzle which would make it infeasible to send large amounts of email. Then there's the Sender ID stuff which I think got shot down etc.