Porn Via Email

Originally Posted by goldoni

...80% of the spam mail I get come from the USA...

I often wonder whether using a .co.uk email address would receive less spam than a .com address.

Since most spam comes from (and is aimed at) the USA, do spammers only target .com addresses?

My Freeserve account (.co.uk) has never received a spam email in over 4 years but my .com ntl account receives over a hundred per day.

[iadom]

In a word no. My Zen addy is .co.uk and receives loads, my Ntl is .com and gets hardly any.

Useful article here.


http://www.microsoft.com/security/ar.../fightspam.asp

[goldoni]

Originally Posted by XFS03

I often wonder whether using a .co.uk email address would receive less spam than a .com address. .

Well I would like to know what your doing right as my ard.co.uk domain is the most spamed about 200 a day while my NTL account gets about 3 then we have my goldonian.org account which gets at least three viruses each and every day. I also have a .org.uk domain and it gets not one (you note I dont give the full name as I don't want to tempt fate) Can anybody help me with the headers re the person who is sending three viruses a day?????? and how to trace them????

[chris-sf]

Well the porn spam continues

I had 75 new emails in my inbox this morning since checking mail yesterday, some of this was other spam but there must have been 30-40 of the same porn spam as before.

Can't believe that NTL haven't managed to filter this out yet and // or the remote sites haven't actually been taken down due to complaints

[alanf617]

Well my .co.uk address still attracts LOADS of porn, it passes through the NTL account, so if Spampal can catch it, I don't see why NTL can't filter it....

AND the porn is such poor quality these days!





Just kidding ;-)

[mdean]

I would advise 2 things

1 Get rid of OE and use thunderbird which has built in junk filters
2 Use spamcop to report the *******s

[alanf617]

Thunderbird.....?
Is that part of Mozilla? The name rings a bell. Is it free / cheap /expensive?

And I used to use Spamcop, gave me a warm feeling inside to know that I was reporting the b*stards, but then I worked out that a) I was still getting spam from the same people and b) i was spending ages filtering and reporting the spam. Now I use SpamPal, which filters almost all spam into a spam folder, which I empty when am feeling virtuous.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by alanf617

so if Spampal can catch it, I don't see why NTL can't filter it....

The issue is more about "do we want NTL to do the filtering?". And this issue has been done to death elsewhere In summary, people are divided into two camps: (1) the optimists who, despite NTL failing to run a decent email service and generally being a pretty poor ISP, firmly believe that NTL can run spam filter(s) and not delete all their important emails; (2) the realists who don't trust NTL to do anything right and who would much rather manage their own emails and spam. I'm in the latter camp If NTL did introduce spam filtering, and it's a big "if" given the costs and logistics involved, then they would have to give customers a choice of filtered or unfiltered email, otherwise I for one will be looking elsewhere for email provision. There are other fine detail problems such as, "If NTL maintains it's own blacklists, will the blacklisted be able to remove their IP address(es) from the list(s)" Bear in mind that NTL's own customers have trouble contacting them, so how third parties will fare, I don't know

If you run Zone Alarm, particularly Pro, you might want to review the virus rules for the regex filter in Spampal. I've removed the include for the virus rules file and added some Zone Alarm specific rules instead.

[alanf617]

It sounds very reasonable, when you put it like that

Cheers

[BlueMeany]

Originally Posted by cichlid

I'm all for fighting back. Check the headers of the email and send it back where it came from (if you can). You'll find their ISPs have an acceptable use policy similar to NTLs which, if you read it, says they're not allowed to do that.
I realise this isn't possible for all of them but I think the attitude of just using spam filters ensures that problem continues to linger. If you think about it, they are actually stealing our bandwidth. Any ISP that receives a message regarding 'theft' isn't going to ignore it.
Hey if NTL can consider uncapping your modem as bandwidth theft then I can regard spam the same.

If only that worked.

I still get two thirds of my spam from comcast. I use SpamCop to report it back to them, and even quote their AUP back at them

May I remind you of your own Acceptable Use Policy point (xi), also Section entitled "Electronic Mail" and trust that your "promotion of good citizenship" mentioned in Section entitled "Violation of Acceptable Use Policy" is implemented.

They never stop though, and personally I don't think they give a flying fig about their users spamming people.

[alanf617]

I used to send an email along the lines of "If you don't stop this spam, I shall activate the "REVENGE IS MINE (tm) program which will sign you up to over 150 internet mailing lists, in the sure & certain knowledge that each of these in turn will pass your name on to other mailing lists. Happy reading!" which made me feel better but didn't achieve anything

[Atomic22]

all the "words" i have tagged on the spam i have ticked the outlook option to "delete them from the server".....if i changed the option to "do not download"....do they then become ntlworlds problem or are they still my problem?
ie if they are not deleted or downloaded are they using my mailspace or ntls?

[alanf617]

If you don't download, I presume that they sit on the server, filling up whatever space is in your mailbox.

[Atomic22]

yeh i thought that at well.........if i choose to "not download" them and they sit on the server does outlook attempt to download the same emails every time i click send/receive ?

[alanf617]

Yes, unless you move it to another folder. I think you can create a few other folders on NTL, but I presume that they will count towards your total usage. Useful if you want to store something and download it to another computer via the webmail option at the NTL website